Opinion
EHRs a financial burden with no payback for late-career physicians
LETTER — Posted June 29, 2009
Like many of the over-60-years-old physicians -- I'm 63 -- I had hoped to practice another four or five years. But all the electronic health record costs seem to be up-front, and the rewards far down the road. All the cost-benefit studies I've seen show that adopting an EHR will cost us over-60 physicians money and, more important, time we will never recover.
At a time when primary care physicians are getting scarce, it makes little sense to try to saddle us with even higher overhead then punish us for continuing to work.
Charles Davant, MD, Blowing Rock, N.C.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2009/06/29/edlt0629.htm.