Ooops, I wanted to add. Even after all this is entered into the computer the doctors attending won’t read it but ask the same questions in the room. They also won’t read the printed information I bring. Every nurse, med-tech, etc. the same thing.
Amen. In my ER physician productivity dropped 30-40%. Those of us old school docs who can’t type, simply retired.
A good example: I challenge anyone to extract any useful information from a VA medical record. One page handwritten notes now consume 10 pages.
The whole objective of the EMR seems to be to satisfy the word counters who check to see if all of the government mandated “Elements” are checked off, to determine the level of service for billing.
H8 EMR
A huge boondoggle.
If it is any comfort, the medical people hate it more than you do.
What you said, but also, all of the EMS system are very, very poorly coded and have little or no safeguards and little or no security. Most (if not all EMS systems) aren’t even encrypted.
My wife, a medical professional, has used 8 separate systems during her career from small practices to large hospitals.
They are not secure and they make life harder for the people who are forced to use them.
(and they aren’t even linked together so what’s the point?)
I have often wondered about this, after I tell the nurse why I am there and what my symptoms are, she writes it down on my file, doctor comes in and asks the very same questions. Hello, look at the sheet by your elbow.
Yep.
Been helping a good friend and everything has to be repeated every time- and the doctors never seem to look at the info.
Must say the VA does very good with records in my experience though. Doc quickly goes through the record and gets down to business.
Isn’t progress wonderful.
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ie; Progressivism
sometimes an assistant goes over some of the answers, but this doesn't seem to help the doc much, since he asks us to repeat all the relevant answers.