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Originally Posted by TheVillageChicken
My urologist at Duke University Medical Center told me that tethering to the computer is due to requirements imposed by the Affordable Health Care Act. During my last visit, he sat there typing and three times dropped his chin to his chest, groaned, and sighed "Obama Care."
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There are incentives in the ACA to move to electronic records. There are huge administrative and patient benefits to move away from forms and dictation which are cumbersome and lead to errors and non compliance. Of course, with a new system there is a learning curve. But all of us have made it through technological changes before and after a little griping things got better.