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Old 01-17-2015, 09:55 AM
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There's no need to shoot the messenger or doubt that the electronic medical record (EMR) is that many pages.

All you have to do is ask any doctor or in-hospital nurse how many screen loads of useless "documentation" (aka "Billing and CYA material) they have to page thru with the computer running at the speed of a wood-fueled locomotive, just to get to even the most basic, vital information they need for patient care.

Ask them what percentage of the Billing and CYA material in the electronic chart is auto-fed by default with no interaction by themselves, or how many paragraphs of canned text is fed in when they click a check box there to indicate a single problem the patient had for 2 days in 1942 and has never been a problem since. Ask how many dictation errors the thing transcribes, inserting garbage into the chart that the dr. will have to rely on to CYA himself with when dragged into court in a lawsuit, or be told by the hospital billing directors that he's "leaving money on the table" by not putting in some more patient data that would yield more costly billable goods/services.

This is by hospital IT news source:

10 things you hate about your EMR | Healthcare IT News