In Friday's editorial I wrote that many physicians were having serious problems with EMRs, but that on balance the profession had to lead the charge because there was no turning back from the move to electronic medical records. Dr. Kelly Clark responded that EMRs were being forced on physicians by payers and that EMRs in practice didn't help care quality. This has ignited a vigorous and well informed online debate on The Health Care Blog, with several doctors echoing Kelly Clark's complaint. Other comments decry organized medicine's role in obstructing the development of quality standards and the use of information technology to record and measure it.

- see this blog post at my Health Care Blog