[Arlis]

I was in the EMR/Electronic Medical Records industry in the mid-90’s, and can’t believe it’s taken us this long to get to their being a reality. I was an exec with one of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical companies.

The key issue we saw then is that only a physician could truly develop a system that would function like he/she thinks. Today’s EMR is developed by software people trying to figure out how a physician thinks/works.

I have a close friend who is a physician with a major hospital in a major PA city that I was with a few weeks ago.

He told me that they have done internal research in their hospital showing that the use of EMR has caused their productivity to GO DOWN BY 30%!!!!

Obamacare will probably knock it down another 50%.......

[Mamzelle]

Simple. We are asking someone with an MD and maybe a lifetime of experience in diagnosis and treatment to suddenly become an expert, accurate and speedy typist Now, I don't want to put down a typist. I was one. But it is absurd to pay a typist doctor's wages.