The EHR will prove to have been a catastrophic error.
software glitches that prevent doctors from accessing files quickly, that mix up patients or send vital test results to the wrong file
"Mistakes" buried in layers of bureaucratic SNAFUs means that nobody is responsible or accountable for anything.
Where's the reset button? The best I can do on my end is hope that I don't get sick or injure myself. :(
They are inefficient and just plain garbage!!!!!
Clicking on the wrong thing on a computer program is much more common then “poor handwriting” mistakes.
I think one of the great threats to our health care system, is that hospitals employee’s are not being trained to use a fall back paper system.
In 2012, a derecho hit our area and one local hospital had to close down because they didn’t have enough generator capacity to run their computers!
In 2016, Med-star Georgetown Hospital in DC ERMs were hacked and held for ransom. It was a mess. They didn’t train their personnel to use a paper fall back. Newbie docs were clueless when it came to writing out prescriptions!!!
We are way to dependent on something that is so fragile.
The EHR is a catastrophic error!