Heartland Daily Podcast – Dr. Mike Koriwchak: “Meaningful Use” Regulations Killed Health Record Innovation

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Michael Hamilton

Michael Hamilton is the Heartland Institute research fellow for health care issues and the managing editor of Health Care News. A Hillsdale College graduate and former educator, he has written and edited for a variety of online and print media including The Federalist, PJ Media, WORLD, The Philos Project, Canon & Culture, LifeSiteNews.com, The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation blog Dissident, and Ohio Conservative Review. Michael serves as vice chairman of the board of Forge Leadership Network to help identify, train, and connect America's future statesmen.

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So you want electronic medical records (EMR) and electronic health records (EHR)–and so you should. Doctors in private practice were innovating to provide top-flight electronic records long before the federal government encumbered EMR and EHR with fruitless reporting requirements under the guise of “meaningful use,” which distract physicians from providing patients with the highest quality care.

In today’s Health Care News Podcast, Dr. Mike Koriwchak, vice president of Docs4PatientCare Foundation and co-host of The Doctor’s Lounge joined Heartland research fellow and Health Care News Managing Editor Michael Hamilton to share why the day the feds rolled out “meaningful use” was the day innovation died in the realm of EMR and EHR, and how lawmakers and CMS can help revive it.

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