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46 HEALTH IT ingful use'), I decided to start a low overhead solo practice. I no longer give a thought to 'meaningful use' and am prepared financially to take the penalty. My patients and I are much hap- pier." 18. Robert Herwick, MD. Dermatology Medical Group of San Francisco. "Stage 1 was easy. Everything be- yond that is a caricature of absurd federal bureaucracy, literally impossible to complete without hiring a full staff. e Physi- cian Quality Reporting System is no better and we have given up on both. e equally ridiculous ICD-10 is simply piling on. It is my opinion that this is all calculated to make the private practice of medicine so intolerable that physicians will jump at the offer of a single-payer system somewhere down the line and the social engineers will have achieved their goal. Shame on all of us for tolerating this!" 19. Charles Leonard, MD. Family Practice Physicians (Talbott, Tenn.). "As a solo, rural family physician practicing for 34 years, I tried EMR two years ago and spent an additional 2-3 hours per day entering data. I never did meet meaning- ful use stage 1. I gave up on the EMR and went back to paper charts. My patient flow is now great again. My patients love the fact that I communicate with them face to face and they love the fact that it is impossible to 'hack' their data. ey know their information is safe in my office and their chart will never leave my office. I am not alone. ere are other physicians in my area who use paper charts. I will gladly take the penalty rather than spend additional hours entering meaningless data to satisfy insurance companies or government entities who only want to mine data for their own interests rather than im- prove patient care." 20. William Strinden, MD. Memorial Hospital (Lufkin, Texas). "One Friday I went in at 6 a.m. to discharge a patient at one hospital before starting a long day of surgery at the other. Logging in, I faced a screen of numbers. e nurse said that they updated early and 'it takes a while for the com- puters to come back online.' A second computer also was a screen of numbers. She offered to let me use one of her com- puters. ey are slow and bulky, so she sits between two com- puters, allowing one to digest input on one patient while she works on a second patient's input. Aer 45 minutes I finished what should have taken 10 minutes total: To see and discharge one patient. at is not unusual." n Mayo Clinic CISO Jim Nelms Resigns By Akanksha Jayanthi J im Nelms stepped down from his position as chief information security officer of Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic in late September, according to a Post Bulletin report. Mr. Nelms had been with Mayo since March 2013. In an email to the Post Bulletin, Mayo spokesman Karl Oestreich said, "We are thankful for the contributions Jim has provided to Mayo Clinic since 2013, including the formal establishment of the Office of Information Security. We wish Jim success in his future endeavors." e report does not offer an explanation for Mr. Nelms' de- parture. Prior to joining Mayo Clinic, Mr. Nelms was CISO of e World Bank from May 1998 to March 2013. n BECKER'S 7 th Annual Meeting 2016 Hyatt Regency, Chicago April 27-30, 2016 John H. Noseworthy, CEO of Mayo Clinic, David Feinberg, CEO of Geisinger Health and 43 rd U.S. President, George W. Bush as a few keynote speakers Register at http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/conference/