if one is an older doctor who hasn’t transfered all files over to the computer then this EMR is a time consuming nightmare.
But on the positive the EMR firms are making bank getting doctors to buy their product
Because of this.
Just stop it!! Don’t comply. Use the lois lerner defense. !! “opps my computer hard drive was destroyed by accident with a hammer!!” . Screw obama.
An unintended consequence, they try to put their medical release forms with electronic signatures. I read through every release form and strike out the stupid things.
You can’t do that when they keep a particularly onerous generic medical release forms.
I read the headline as:
America Agrees Obama Sucks!
Apparently one of the requirements is to record weight and height in metric, because that’s what happened today when I went to a new doctor. Weight and height were actually measured in in pounds and inches, and then they had to use the computer to convert to metric for entering the data in metric in their electronic records.
The tech asked if I wanted to know what my height and weight was in metric and I told her no one hardly anyone but chemists and physicists gave a crap about metric, but I would be interested in knowing how much my weight was in stones.
That's in no small part due to the cronyism embedded in the federal stimulus "incentives"
Insiders allowed to play in a highly regulated government oligopoly. In return for access and guaranteed profits, they fully support the political and policy aims of the regime.
Bookmark.
This crap was in the works long before 0bama arrived on the scene. I was once employed at a hospital in Mississippi that participated in an electronic records trial in the early 1990s. Of course it was a disaster billed as health care of the future.
The only ones benefiting from EMR are the vendors of computers and software.
I’d venture that far more than 50% of the records are unrelated to health care. A very large portion are for CYA from trial lawyers.
Does Townhall require excerpting ?