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This comes as no surprise whatsoever.
Officials at Epic Systems are not commenting on a New York Times report Wednesday that the firm was central in lobbying Congress on a $19 billion “giveaway” to convert all U.S. medical records from paper to computers.
The story contends that executives of the largest digital records companies — including Epic, Cerner and Allscripts — poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into a behind-the-scenes effort to promote the use of electronic records, effectively pushing aside smaller competitors.
Those efforts paid off handsomely in 2009, when legislation promoting the use of electronic medical records was included in President Obama’s economic stimulus bill. The $780 billion package included nearly $20 billion in incentives aimed specifically at software made by Epic and others.
The stimulus package also included penalties for doctors who don't adopt the new technology. Providers who don't install electronic records by 2014 will face reductions in their Medicare reimbursements...
Anyone who didn't see that coming was willfully ignorant. Epic's systems are odd creatures, using a "proprietary" coding language, thus immune to enhancements unless Epic provides them--at a cost, of course.
And, of course, some of the profits are recycled back into the coffers of (D) candidates, such as was the case with Diamond Jim Doyle--and Obozo.
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