April 25, 2013 | Dr. Robert Walker, director of health innovation for the U.S. Army Surgeon General, is frustrated with the electronic health record (EHR) system. "It [takes] the focus away from the patient and put it all on the computer,” he says. But the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, (HITECH Act), requires healthcare providers to implement EHRs, so the challenges must be overcome. Computerworld