10 EHR Vendors Pledge Patient Records Access Within Months

Why doesn't the National Coordinator do it right. If they would setup a national database for all providers, labs ect. to download their data that is pt. specific than make it avalible as patient allows thus no more need for HIE, teaching pt. multi ways to access different EHRs and than vendors only need to interface with one database and for once the goverment can do the work instead of dumping it on everybody else!!!! We have had database tech for 15-20 years capable of doing this, so just do it! Than maybe the vendors could work on making the EHRs better for the practitioners. Maybe also put some commitees and govt tax dollars to doing something besides creating more useless regs. that we need to figure out and impliment. Is there a candidate out there who understands this? Call me 203 217 8021 maybe together we could save healthcare dollars for real healthcare. Mike Ackley Cheshire CT.