Shaw's Eco-Logic

This HND piece brings you current on EHRs and those troublesome endoscopes.

As to the pretty much unmitigated disaster that is the EHR push, some good news is that the "Meaningful Use" debacle is about to come to an end. I think some of the public unraveling is because the powers-that-be can't keep it a secret that essentially everyone—except the vendors and the Federal overlords—hate EHRs. We will continue watching this issue.

As far as the scopes and Senator Murray, it only took two days after her report was released that Olympus—owning around 85 percent of the affected scope market—announced its "Urgent medical device removal and corrective action." Only, don't breathe easy just yet. A lot of ground has to be covered before this mess is truly cleaned up.

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