The burden of technology: Breaking the comfort zone

The multitude of challenges faced by most premium surgeons — from implementation of electronic health records and satisfaction of Meaningful Use and PQRS criteria to meeting patient expectations and avoiding malpractice in 20/20 unhappy patients to maintaining practice efficiencies and meeting overhead expenditures — definitely adds to the burden of adding new technology, both diagnostic and therapeutic. Many surgeons are in a comfort zone in both medical and surgical approaches to patient care and are in no hurry to change their practice patterns despite advances in technology.Surgeons stay the course