Electronic Health Records (EHR) Hurts Doctors?

I am a medical doctor and I have first hand knowledge of the impact of Obamacare EHR mandates upon America’s health care providers and patients.

Obama-care’s EHR predominantly functions fas an expensive insurance claims platform which expands non-medical access to sensitive patient details, tellingly geared toward denial of coverage of medical services and benefits. The wrong people are accessing sensitive medical information of Obamacare’s EHRs and for all the wrong reasons. Obama’s administration even opened up access of mental health records to law enforcement! This is the most extreme form of profiling, prejudice and catastrophic betrayal by the Obama administration. Stigmatic breeching of the confidential records of patients who have sought mental health care is ignorant, hateful, cruel and shamefully biased.

Obamacare’s mandate to implement expensive and flawed EHR software was recklessly launched in advance of the technology needed for EHR security. How can Obama’s administration defend the widespread hacking and epic breaches of America’s most sensitive patient information which resulted from mandated utilization of flawed corporate EHR wares? Millions of EHR records have been hacked, exposing those patients to identity theft and impersonations of American citizenry. In spite of this, Obama ignored the issue of electronic hacking until hacking impacted his own party’s Presidential candidate of 2016.

Corporate access to subscriber’s medical data insinuated illegitimate corporate medical authority over the doctor-patient relationship, resulting in non-payment of medical services from second guessing treatment by non-medical administrators. Medical practices were
subsequently subjected to bankruptcy. One submitted, this electronic data is utilized primarily for claims denials by corporate payors, NOT for the benefit of any patient’s medical care, medical research or for saving the rain forest. The mandate for America’s medical practices to purchase and upkeep flawed EHR software was launched in advance of EHR software interoperability for communicating with the patient’s other physicians and bona-fide medical researchers.

Indentured servitude of physicians to electronic records serves corporate health insurer’s cost reduction, but coverage costs to patient actually increased. The countless hours of daily non-reimbursable EHR labors are so onerous that many doctors chose early retirement to avoid such enslavement. Doctors are fined by Medicare for conscientious refusal to participate in EHR, as are those physicians in remote medical practices who are unable to participate in EHR due to inadequate internet service or computer support staff. Medical practices which acquiesce to EHR face electronic transmission failures, computer crashes, lost revenue, lost data, increased HIPAA privacy fines, increased medico-legal exposure and EHR maintenance costs in excess of $30,000.00 per year per physician. A data entry glitch into a confusing EHR program can result in a life altering charge of Medicare fraud or result in patient profiling by law enforcement. Nevertheless corporate EHR vendors face no liability for the consequences of their expensively flawed wares, which Obamacare forced physicians to purchase.

Obamacare’s EHR is, at best, a regulatory mandate to finance prematurely released electronic data systems in exchange for corporate software and health insurance industry financial support for political aspirations. At worst, EHR is a vehicle of espionage against medical privacy and voting citizens’ identities.