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In yet another example of the clerical overload caused by bad health IT, physicians find themselves drinking from a fire hose through cybernetics.  This, in the field of dermatology, let alone critical care specialties: Physicians Overwhelmed by Messaging From Electronic Medical Records MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Matilda W. Nicholas, MD, PhD Duke Dermatology January 29, 2018https://

Channeling Lyndon Johnson on Walter Cronkite, in clinical medicine, when you've lost Boston (including MGH), you've probably lost the health IT war. Death By A Thousand Clicks: Leading Boston Doctors Decry Electronic Medical Records May 12, 2017 By Drs. John Levinson, Bruce H. Price and Vikas Saini http://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2017/05/12/boston-electronic-medical-record It happens every

In the past, politicians on both sides of the aisle have generally sung unfettered and uncritical praise for electronic medical records and other health IT systems. Perhaps letters like this one from Jan. 2015, from near 40 major US medical societies bemoaning the injurious effects of health IT on medical practice, have finally had an effect:  http://mb.cision.com/Public/373/9710840/