Dr. David Blumenthal, the leader of the federal government’s health IT initiative, keynoted the MMS’ health IT conference with remarks today asserting that adoption of health IT is a professional imperative for physicians.
“Information and its management is a core competency for the profession,” he said. “Can we be technically competent if we don’t manage information using the most capable and available technology?”
Dr. Blumenthal also extolled explosion of innovation in the EHR industry, and that every major electronics company is trying to build a better EHR. He said a “tidal wave of change” is coming, and predicted there won’t be another opportunity in our lifetime to have the government subsidize the implementation of EHRs.
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