Electronic medical records (EMR) have the appearance of convenience but I find them much less helpful than the practitioner-generated notes. Practitioners copy and paste old notes into new ones to satisfy insurers, so most electronic medical record are cluttered and incoherent because of mindless repetition of meaningless and often-outda…
Electronic medical records (EMR) have the appearance of convenience but I find them much less helpful than the practitioner-generated notes. Practitioners copy and paste old notes into new ones to satisfy insurers, so most electronic medical record are cluttered and incoherent because of mindless repetition of meaningless and often-outdated information included solely to assure compensation. Most fellow physicians I know agree but are shackled to their computer by health care systems, insurers and the government. And of course the worst aspect of EMR is that too many physicians pay more attention to the computer than the patient in front of them.
Electronic medical records (EMR) have the appearance of convenience but I find them much less helpful than the practitioner-generated notes. Practitioners copy and paste old notes into new ones to satisfy insurers, so most electronic medical record are cluttered and incoherent because of mindless repetition of meaningless and often-outdated information included solely to assure compensation. Most fellow physicians I know agree but are shackled to their computer by health care systems, insurers and the government. And of course the worst aspect of EMR is that too many physicians pay more attention to the computer than the patient in front of them.
I agree!!! My mom had a bunch of stuff in her latest well check note that was old, outdated, and just autopopulated from a note 1-3 years ago!