Monday, October 06, 20080
Paper charts
Electronic records are a recent theme here. #1 Dinosaur give his take in a Medscape piece (registration required), calling the current crop of EMRs nor ready for widespread use:
The EMRs promise of a "paperless" office is as distant as ever. It's much easier to keep my efficient, time-tested paper charts than lay out thousands of dollars for hardware and software that aren't going to save time or money, or make a single substantive difference in the care that I deliver.Doctors are not technology-adverse. But going digital has to be done with the right programs, and the current generation of EMRs aren't quite there yet.
It's not that this dinosaur doesn't appreciate the advantages of living in a computerized world. However, after a careful evaluation of the present-day pros and cons of EMRs, I still say, "Make mine paper."
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