{"id":2541,"date":"2009-05-30T12:23:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T17:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmedicine.org\/epatients\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2009-06-03T20:32:38","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T01:32:38","slug":"david-kibbe-mark-leavitt-openness-vs-opacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2009\/05\/david-kibbe-mark-leavitt-openness-vs-opacity.html","title":{"rendered":"David Kibbe & Mark Leavitt : Openness vs. Opacity"},"content":{"rendered":"
Background information:<\/strong><\/p>\n This week the Healthcare Blog got on fire, thanks to an angry, vitriolic drive-by post<\/a> from Dr. Mark Leavitt, former Secretary of the DHHS<\/span> (innacurate) and current\u00a0chair of\u00a0CCHIT: … I\u2019m stunned by the level of dishonesty a few have stooped to in a desperate attempt to toss aside years of work by hundreds of public-spirited contributors.\u00a0 Perhaps they want to bypass the challenge of supplying robust electronic health records and re-educating clinicians to use them meaningfully in transforming care, and just get unfettered access to some stimulus dough.<\/p>\n For months, I’ve been “turning the other cheek” to Dr. David Kibbe because I believe in devoting my energy to solving problems rather than to criticizing\u00a0other people or worrying about what others think of me.\u00a0 But\u00a0his repeated use of falsehoods and innuendo to attack CCHIT have found an audience in the national media, reaching a level that can no longer be ignored.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n David Kibbe, MD, an highly respected expert in EHRs<\/a> and active supporter<\/a> of patient-centered medicine responded<\/a>:<\/p>\n “To clarify what I actually said, after a brief interview, quoted in the second of two articles in the Washington Post<\/em><\/a> by Robert O’Harrow, Jr, a Pulitzer Prize finalist :<\/p>\n\n
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