Comments on: Gaming and EHRs http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/05/gaming-and-ehrs.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Robert S Hedinhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/05/gaming-and-ehrs.html#comment-74787 Robert S Hedin Tue, 08 May 2007 19:07:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/05/gaming-and-ehrs.html#comment-74787 EHR is DOA and proposing a new interface or blaming the developers reveals avoidance of the real issue. <br/><br/>Until physicians are paid more to keep the patient healthy than to treat illness, documentation is a liability rather than an asset. To the majority of doctors, it's $64.00 for everyone who walks in the door. The more bodies that go by, the more the register rings. The game is money. EHR is DOA and proposing a new interface or blaming the developers reveals avoidance of the real issue.

Until physicians are paid more to keep the patient healthy than to treat illness, documentation is a liability rather than an asset. To the majority of doctors, it’s $64.00 for everyone who walks in the door. The more bodies that go by, the more the register rings. The game is money.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/05/gaming-and-ehrs.html#comment-74736 Anonymous Tue, 08 May 2007 00:20:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/05/gaming-and-ehrs.html#comment-74736 That sounds like an EHR that would transform the way we use information cognitively--not just a different way to store and display the same text descriptions. Like the difference between a drawing of a room and a text description of a room. I can see the doctor of the future working on a screen with a human body depicted, and with various icons that give general information about that organ system, pending studies, overall condition, currency of information--and which when clicked draw up 3-d images of imaging studies detaile graphical summaries of lab studies, and time-line indexed symptom reports. That sounds like an EHR that would transform the way we use information cognitively–not just a different way to store and display the same text descriptions. Like the difference between a drawing of a room and a text description of a room. I can see the doctor of the future working on a screen with a human body depicted, and with various icons that give general information about that organ system, pending studies, overall condition, currency of information–and which when clicked draw up 3-d images of imaging studies detaile graphical summaries of lab studies, and time-line indexed symptom reports.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/05/gaming-and-ehrs.html#comment-74734 Anonymous Mon, 07 May 2007 23:55:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/05/gaming-and-ehrs.html#comment-74734 Too few doctors play computer games.<br/><br/>A bigger problem is that the computer geniuses that design EHRs have no idea what doctors do. They are convinced (as are some game desginers) that more is always better. <br/><br/>If computer folks followed us around for a week, they would know what we need (and we don't) in an EHR. If they played more games, they would know where to look for a decent interface. Too few doctors play computer games.

A bigger problem is that the computer geniuses that design EHRs have no idea what doctors do. They are convinced (as are some game desginers) that more is always better.

If computer folks followed us around for a week, they would know what we need (and we don’t) in an EHR. If they played more games, they would know where to look for a decent interface.

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