President's Mandate for EMR

That noted below is from an article dated July 6, 2013. The entire link is noted below.

Electronic Medical Records and how this change will affect medical transcriptionists:
President Obama has mandated that by the end of 2014 all medical records must be transferred to electronic medical record systems. Okay, you think, the physician will dictate and the mt will type it and it will be transmitted directly into the EMR. Some networks are doing this already, I worked for one. One month before I was laid off, the hospital network I was working for officially converted one region of its network to Epic. Epic is a very popular EMR. By the end of 2014 the entire network will be on Epic. That network is anticipating no longer needing transcription at all. Why? Because with this change to Epic, the physician is required (absolutely, no passing the buck, it must be done) to go in to each dictated document and fix all errors before they can sign off on it. Okay, so no big deal you think, mt's will still type it and then the physician can double check it. Nope. With just that one region switching we saw a huge drop off in dictation. The physicians found that it was easier to just enter their notes in the system while they were in the room with the patient. They all carry around laptops or tablets and would simply sit and make all their notes, diagnoses, write prescriptions, order tests and submit them, all while the patient was right there with them. No need to dictate, no need for transcription. One visit to the EMR and that patients' visit was recorded and signed off on. All wrapped up in a nice little bow.