Time for EHRs to Become Plug-and-Play

May 21st, 2009 admin

by David C. Kibbe MD, MBA The remarkable report, “ Initial Lessons From the First National Demonstration Project on Practice Transformation to a Patient-Centered Medical Home ,” published in the May/June issue of Annals of Family Medicine , the Nutting Report , makes this point about the state of primary care IT offerings: Technology needed in a PCMH is not “plug and play.” The hodge-podge of information technology marketed to primary care …


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