The Problem with Government-Mandated Electronic Health Records

Peter Suderman, writing on Reason's blog, piggybacks off the concerns that Dr. Jeffrey Singer made about the government mandate for electronic health records in the Wall Street Journal's op-ed section. Singer pointed to research that found that physicians think that electronic health records drive up healthcare costs because, among other reasons, of high implementation costs, which is particularly burdensome for small private practices. A bigger concern is that current health IT systems are not interoperable and don't operate across multiple provider networks, Suderman also notes.