Reply #6: Proof of why electronic medical records suck a rat's you know what.

[McCamy Taylor]

Can I get a great big round of I told you so here?

All the new legislation about electronic medical records does is 1) allow a bunch of medical companies to make a killing selling all providers overpriced equipment to get them into compliance with the law and 2) allow companies that can hire computer hackers (i.e. every one of them) to steal confidential medical records and use them to create a database to help them in business.

Electronic records might as well be posted on a billboard. Nothing replaces the old fashioned pen and ink locked in a doctor's office. The worst that could happen there is it could be lost in a fire.