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- martalli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why don't doctors use electronic medical records? Hundreds of vendors provide various EMR systems, with only the most minimal standards. Implementing an EMR could cost $10k/doctor (usually more), and yet if your vendor goes belly-up, you might get stuck with an old database that cannot be imported into a new vendor.
Meanwhile, for all its warts, paper is easy to use, faster (at least to produce, albeit slower to search), and the database interface will remain unchanged forever. It's certainly hard to pony up the Benjamins for an EMR. If only the open source EMRs were better...
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