Corporate headquarters in Washington D.C. has decided that we are going to use an electronic medical record. In order to enforce their mandate they offer the company a whole lot of TARP money. We have been picked to be a trial institution for a new program. Now all our medical decisions will be made 3000 miles away in the Silicon Valley. You can make changes but it is so difficult that eventually you will concede and become Robo-Doc and do what corporate wants or what was formally known as "go along to get along". There will be less time spent with the patient and more with the lap-top. Efficiency, safety and morale will suffer but if we all hang in there somewhere down the line corporate will get a big pot of Obama money. As far as the lab rats go, some are ready to jump ship. Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Good Morning Lab Rats
Corporate headquarters in Washington D.C. has decided that we are going to use an electronic medical record. In order to enforce their mandate they offer the company a whole lot of TARP money. We have been picked to be a trial institution for a new program. Now all our medical decisions will be made 3000 miles away in the Silicon Valley. You can make changes but it is so difficult that eventually you will concede and become Robo-Doc and do what corporate wants or what was formally known as "go along to get along". There will be less time spent with the patient and more with the lap-top. Efficiency, safety and morale will suffer but if we all hang in there somewhere down the line corporate will get a big pot of Obama money. As far as the lab rats go, some are ready to jump ship. 
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Are you saying that the patient (symptoms/history) will be sent somewhere, and the protocol will be sent back?
Quick! Quick! Get Web MD up... this patient is bleeding to death.... what do we do???
OOPS!!! Too late! "She's dead Jim!"
Can anyone spell major lawsuits against the government?
Seems to me Bones always said, "He's dead Jim."
will the patients be informed about the new protocol?
Orders from Washington; treat the patients like mold, keep them warm and in the dark.
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