Clinton Campaign Slogan Error: ‘I’m with EHR’ Auto-Corrected to ‘I’m with HER’

NEW YORK, N.Y., April 1 – A staffer for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton acknowledged today that an iconic slogan associated with the campaign was originally intended to be a statement of support for electronic health records (EHRs).

Campaign spokesperson Dani Appel told a writer from the health information technology blog HERtalk that Clinton’s well-known ‘I’m With Her’ slogan – often seen in its hashtag form, #ImWithHER, on social media websites – was originally supposed to be ‘I’m With EHR’ in a statement of support for the health IT industry. The campaign team didn’t realize it was incorrect until they opened that first shipment of bumper stickers proclaiming ‘I’m With HER’, so they just ran with it.

Appel challenged Clinton’s rival Republican and Democratic candidates to similarly state their commitment to the digitization of medical records. A spokesperson for Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders responded that Sander’s ‘#ImWithHIMSS’ slogan and hashtag has existed since last October, but has been underreported by the media.