If you are unfamiliar with the term, the Luddites in England of the early nineteenth century disapproved of the industrial revolution, and wrecked factories by industrial sabotage to protest the replacement of their skilled labor jobs by machinery. Their attempted social de-evolution led Luddites to execution or transportation to Australia. Many today, wishing for return to a quieter, calmer, slower existence, believe that the Luddites may have been on to something.
If you lean toward the neo-Luddite, you might elect to avoid EMR like the plague (In fact, you won't find much dispute in medicine that the plague is in fact a good thing to avoid, so perhaps the analogy is not a great one). We all know people who don't have an email address (gasp!), which in our era is like not being sure how to use a telephone or play a CD (Although come to think of it, this analogy may have holes as well.
If you lean toward the neo-Luddite, you might elect to avoid EMR like the plague (In fact, you won't find much dispute in medicine that the plague is in fact a good thing to avoid, so perhaps the analogy is not a great one). We all know people who don't have an email address (gasp!), which in our era is like not being sure how to use a telephone or play a CD (Although come to think of it, this analogy may have holes as well.