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?