Posted on 05/12/2015 8:00:54 AM PDT by rktman
More and more people are having the disturbing experience of seeing their doctors spend more time pecking at a computer keyboard than examining them. The doctors are entering data into their patients’ electronic health records (EHRs) in compliance with federal rules introduced a few years ago.
EHRs drive doctors crazy. Their own experience tells them that electronic recordkeeping interferes with care, by taking time away from patients. In a survey conducted by the Deloitte consulting group, three of four doctors said EHRs are not worth the cost. The influential RAND Corporation, which had long endorsed EHRs, reported in 2013 that they neither saved money nor improved care.
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Gotta get those records setup for chip implant one way or another!
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My doctor stands across the examining room punching info into his laptop while asking me questions and rarely looking up to make eye contact.
He reminds me of trying to talk to a teenager playing with a smart phone.
I hate to admit it, but the EHR my practice uses is pretty good.
Easy to navigate. Pretty intuitive.
I wait until the patient leaves the room to do the actual chart entry, minus lab orders, prescriptions, etc.
I can foresee making a zillion dollars solving this problem for them, and I’m JUST THE DAM GUY TO DO IT!
After 22 years of military service.....I got ready to retire and processing through and getting a copy of your medical records is necessary. I sat for 30 minutes gazing through 40-odd pages in my folder (I didn’t exactly use a lot of their services over the years). Very little was readable....and I could have written most of it myself (the doc just transcribed what I said I had for a pain or fever).
Maybe the doctors ought to let the patient write their own records input.
This is currently happening:
An elderly relative has 21 diagnosis/conditions to deal with. The fedzilla EHR apparantly has a limit of 11 total. During his recent visit, the dr had to arbitrarily delete 10 diagnosis for the EHR upload to fedzilla.
Now, what might be the repercussions of that? Will insurance not cover the deleted conditions? What about medications associated with treatments of the deleted entries?
Clearly, this krap is a mess...
But I do have concerns as to who all has access to these records. Are the death panels going to look at my history and decide I'm too old and sickly to waste valuable resources on?
“How do you think the secretary will determine quality and value? That’s right: through the use of the EHRs that MACRA envisions in every doctor’s office.”
And that is when I will quit Medicare.
Electronic Health Records ,the Democrats New Campaign Tool
Unfortunately, the majority are bad or awful. (Some of the very worst, IMO, are the ones used by US gov't health care systems and large HMOs.)
That crawly feeling on the back of my neck told me that all of these intrusive questions and the cross-referencing databases with DEA and who-knows-what-else is the lengthening shadow of Obamacare.
I now view my HMO as a wing of the Federal government--and will act accordingly...
[Clearly, this krap is a mess...]
Once incorrect data is inserted in the medical record, forget it.
Agree. The one we used in the military was just awful.
I try to go to the doctor every five years or so, just to get out.
The EHR is means by which the Medicare police will fine and imprison physicians.
Determining quality and value will be intentionally capricious and arbitrary and designed to criminalize medicine and fine doctors. I have very little Medicare right now, so I think I will phase out the few left very soon.
Thank you for being one of those that understands and still tries to keep your patient’s care at the forefront. Glad your system is working well for you.
Fortunately my kids are gone and I’m 61. To live is Christ and to die is gain. I don’t go to the doctor except to set broken bones. If I get really sick, I gain...
Perhaps you need to find another doctor———
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