In the Sacramento Bee, Dr. Michael Wilkes argues that EMRs won't prove to be as useful as many in the healthcare industry assume they'll be. The primary problem, he says, is that medicine won't benefit from computerization the same way other industries will. "In medicine, our fundamental activity is not stocking warehouse shelves or ordering merchandise from vendors. Medicine involves one human listening to, talking with and examining another."
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