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Originally Posted by dbussone
I appreciate the extent to which you have gone to protect your patient's information. Unfortunately I need all my fingers and toes to count the number of times hospitals have had problems since electronic records have been in general use.
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Trust me, after 34 years practicing medicine, those "problems" were ten times greater with paper records. Just the legibility factor saves thousands of errors. Electronic prescribing eliminates the pharmacist's guess as to what is written on a Rx, physician order entry in hospitals eliminates errors by a unit secretary or nurse, discharge instructions are clearly printed, and office records a legible and easily sent to other physicians. In a lot of ways I also long for "the good old days" in medicine, but electronic records are one aspect that is a clear no-brainer