EHR's: THE FUTURE IS FREE

San Juan Capistrano, California, Oct. 24, 2011--The only way we will achieve a truly effective nationwide system of electronic health records connecting virtually every physician and hospital is by offering office-based physicians a free EHR. By free, I mean a reliable, easy-to-use, meaningful-use certified, web-based ambulatory EHR offered to physicians through an ad-supported model. While a number of other industrialized countries (e.g. Holland, Australia, New Zealand) have 90% or more of their physicians on an EHR, we are struggling to reach 50%. In the past year, thousands of U.S.