Comments on: Do electronic medical records really reduce malpractice risk? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/01/do-electronic-medical-records-really.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:59:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/01/do-electronic-medical-records-really.html/comment-page-1#comment-89105 Anonymous Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:16:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/01/do-electronic-medical-records-really-reduce-malpractice-risk.html#comment-89105 I freely admit I'm a documenting moron. But when I was a 3rd year rotating through Family medicine, I looked like a stud when I had to turn in anonomized clinic notes for grading. The reason? The multispecialty practice I was at had an EMR that wrote up mad-lib type notes based on a cc or how long/what level the visit was.<br/><br/>A monkey could have charted with this thing; it even reminded me to ask about side effects if a patient had gotten a new drug added recently.<br/><br/>I don't think the EMR led me to better dx or tx (although it would offer helpful A/P text I could crib) but I am certain that if any of those charts showed up in court, there's way less chance I'd get tripped up by failing to document the risk of driving while on ambien or something equally stupid. I freely admit I’m a documenting moron. But when I was a 3rd year rotating through Family medicine, I looked like a stud when I had to turn in anonomized clinic notes for grading. The reason? The multispecialty practice I was at had an EMR that wrote up mad-lib type notes based on a cc or how long/what level the visit was.

A monkey could have charted with this thing; it even reminded me to ask about side effects if a patient had gotten a new drug added recently.

I don’t think the EMR led me to better dx or tx (although it would offer helpful A/P text I could crib) but I am certain that if any of those charts showed up in court, there’s way less chance I’d get tripped up by failing to document the risk of driving while on ambien or something equally stupid.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/01/do-electronic-medical-records-really.html/comment-page-1#comment-89055 Anonymous Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:25:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/01/do-electronic-medical-records-really-reduce-malpractice-risk.html#comment-89055 As a family practitioner, I am disgusted that my own organization, the AAFP, does not do a better job of presenting the data.<br/><br/>Stop drinking the kool-aid.<br/>EMR's are nice, but they are far from a panacea for all that ails medicine. A lot of this hype is generated by makers of EMR's that stand to make alot of money, although have little motivation to cooperate with each other, ie make their products "inter-operable".<br/><br/>By the way, my office has had an EMR since 2004. As a family practitioner, I am disgusted that my own organization, the AAFP, does not do a better job of presenting the data.

Stop drinking the kool-aid.
EMR’s are nice, but they are far from a panacea for all that ails medicine. A lot of this hype is generated by makers of EMR’s that stand to make alot of money, although have little motivation to cooperate with each other, ie make their products “inter-operable”.

By the way, my office has had an EMR since 2004.

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