True, but it's also true that like any database, garbage in, garbage out, and there is a lot of garbage in Epic. There are very often wrong diagnoses entered, and important diagnoses excluded. Plus, when Epic is initiated they don't include much of the patient’s history (generally don't go back more than 3-5 years. Thus the transition itself introduces loss of info.
Also, when you think about all the time you spend ‘clicking boxes’ during an office visit, it is clear that this taking away from time you should be spending face to face with the patient, and/or going through their data.
I do strongly believe that it wouldn't be difficult to make something dramatically better than Epic. I respect what you are saying, and appreciate the upsides of an EMR, but none of them are what they should be at this point.
agree. But the other problem is the EHR takes the blame for clicking boxes when it is the government (CMS) that defines which boxes have to be clicked. I am on our hospitals build team and almost everything we build is for one regulatory agency or another. If we got the govt out of health care that would be the best improvement imaginable