http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/dont-assume-electronic-records-equate.html Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/dont-assume-electronic-records-equate.html#comment-85065 Anonymous Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:53:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/04/dont-assume-electronic-records-equate-to-patient-safety.html#comment-85065 And think of all the fun that political opereatives of the future are going to have trolling hard drives for their opponents medical records! And think of all the fun that political opereatives of the future are going to have trolling hard drives for their opponents medical records!

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/dont-assume-electronic-records-equate.html#comment-85062 Anonymous Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:38:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/04/dont-assume-electronic-records-equate-to-patient-safety.html#comment-85062 The tyranny of CMS and their threat of audits the main driver for outpatient EMR charting. Big fat boilerplate notes that satisfy the mandarins but otherwise sleep on thousands of scattered hard drives, never known about by most and rarely even searched for by the doctors who created them. They keep the salespeople of the software companies in shirts and I guess hardware vendors too, and they save some trees. The tyranny of CMS and their threat of audits the main driver for outpatient EMR charting. Big fat boilerplate notes that satisfy the mandarins but otherwise sleep on thousands of scattered hard drives, never known about by most and rarely even searched for by the doctors who created them. They keep the salespeople of the software companies in shirts and I guess hardware vendors too, and they save some trees.

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