Primary care gets short shrift in health IT standards push, doctors say

And they are the ones who need it the most....it's where we all start with our primary MD..BD

The national push for better and more widely used e-health records is suffering from a lack of focus on the doctors who provide the bulk of health care — primary care physicians — in the view of doctors affiliated with the American Academy of Family Physicians.
“We had concerns that the largest platform for health care in the country, where more than half a billion visits are made every year, … is being left behind in the health IT standards development process,” Dr. Robert Phillips, director of AAFP’s Robert Graham Center for policy development, said at the November meeting of the National Committee for Vital and Health Statistics