Posted on 07/19/2018 10:37:55 AM PDT by gattaca
It isn’t just doctors that have to deal with EMR’s.
Anywhere you go in healthcare now people from every department and job title have got their face in a screen.
Even at the vets!
“Insurance serves a purpose.”
Catastrophic insurance does, but ENT type of medical care, insurance is only in the way.
I get no respect I tell ya’! I told my doctor “Hey doc, every morning I wake up I look in the mirror and I get sick. What’s the matter with me?’’ He said “ I dunno, but your eye sights perfect’’.
Georgetown Hospitals EMR's were hacked and held for ransom.
The employees didn't know how to use paper!! Young doc's didn't know how to write out prescriptions
That is unexceptable.
Not so sure about this.
The cut-and-paste features is a major time saver. Instead of typing say “Patients blood pressure well controlled Continue current meds”, it is cut-and-pasted since the patient’s circumstances haven’t changed. Gives docs more time to look the patient in the eye. Feds are starting to get antsy about that.
A report came out a few years ago that found that the amount of time doc’s spend on charting went up 5% pre-EMR to 35% post-EMR. This video is right about this. Just the amount of time to figure out the patient’s whole story went from 2 pages to 7 or 8.
If the Fed require doc’s to spend even more time charting private practice will fall. That may be the point.
Another kicker is the lobbyist who pushed EMRs were the data mining guys.
He lost me at his mention of “vulnerability”.
My ophthalmologist always looks me in the eye. Or actually, both eyes.
My doctor treats me, Mr. GG2, Mom, sis and BIL. He always has a smile and we chat and we ask him about his Mom. Then he gets on the laptop.
Some pharmacies do not accept paper scripts anymore. Just happened to me the other day when a pharmacist called me when he got a paper script from me.
Dang I remember you from the early years here!! Nice to see you again! I had a different screen name back then.
Was it for an opioid?
I know some states won’t accept them cuz they are too easy to forge but for the run of the mill stuff that’s nuts. Pharmacy’s can type it into the system and scan the written.
Our dependencies on electronics will eventually bite us in the a##. Crap happens.
We only use specially printed scripts that cannot be copied or scanned, so the pharmacy knew it was real. Sometimes the patient does not know which pharmacy they will go to, so we write the script on paper. But it is very easy for the pharmacist to check: call us (which they do when they are suspicious).
And it was for a schedule 2, not a narcotic though.
Worst. Dentist. Ever.
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