Opinion: Government rules led electronic health records astray. It’s time to reimagine them
With the passage of the HITECH Act in 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services successfully pushed the medical community to adopt electronic health records. Leading that effort was the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).
After 10 years of use and billions of dollars of investment, electronic health records (EHRs) have not only failed to live up to their potential but have helped create a crisis in medicine.
