But the United Kingdom has spent the last 6 years working on the same idea, and it's proven to be a colossal failure -- so much so that the government is drastically cutting its program. What happened to their plan? Should we be paying attention before rushing ahead with our own?

Stephen Soumerai and Tony Avery explore the failure of EHR implementation in the UK and ask what the US healthcare system can learn as a result.

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“….the United Kingdom has spent the last 6 years working on the same (EHR) idea, and it’s proven to be a colossal failure — so much so that the government is drastically cutting its program. What happened to their plan? Should we be paying attention before rushing ahead with our own?