Twitter EHR "revolt": #EHRbacklash

As noted at the new IEEE Spectrum piece "U. S. Electronic Health Record Initiative: A Backlash Growing?"  (worth reading in its entirety along with its hyperlinks), the following is noted:

There seems to be a slow but steady backlash growing among healthcare providers against the U.S. government�s $30 billion initiative to get all its citizens an electronic health record, initially set to happen by 2014 but now looking at 2020 or beyond. The backlash isn�t so much about the need for, or eventual benefits of, electronic health records but more about the perceived (and real) difficulties caused by the government's incentive program and a growing realization of the actual financial and operational costs involved in rolling out, using, and paying for EHR systems.

The first hyperlink (on the word "backlash") is to a Twitter "revolt" marked by tweets using the hash tag (index tag) "#EHRbacklash." 

I did not start the use of this tag, although have started "tweeting" using it.

The link to tweets made with the tag is:  https://twitter.com/search?q=%23EHRbacklash&src=hash

This is certainly a "first", and should be an industry and pundit wake-up call.

-- SS

Addendum:  easier to follow at this link:  http://tweetchat.com/room/EHRbacklash

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