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Originally Posted by dbussone

Not sure I agree about the better care part. Studies have shown that physicians, particularly in the ER, are spending more time looking at a computer screen than the patient.

By the way, the Feds are now developing huge data warehouses for medical data that the ACA requires be sent to the data warehouses in the name of better care and data portability. I can hardly wait to hear about a huge data hack that involves the release of personal and health information about millions of Americans. The bottom line is that your medical information will no longer be private. That should concern each of us.

Enter the #1 reason of ten why hospitals and physicians "hate their EMR", from the article I linked above:

1. It doesn’t measure up to paper. Shahid Shah, software analyst and author of the blog Healthcare IT Guy, can’t stand when developers and other IT professionals “assume paper records and medical grade documents aren’t as important as structured data.”

And according to Deborah Peel, MD, a practicing physician and national expert on medical privacy, EMR systems don’t allow patients to control who can see, use, or disclose sensitive health data.

“Today’s EMRs were never build to comply with [patients’] constitutional and ethical rights to privacy,” she said. “This is very different from how paper medical record systems work: where doctors always asked for [patients’] consent before releasing [their] records to anyone.”

And when some argue there are many things EMRs can do that paper records can’t, such as sharing information from doctor to doctor, Twitter user @sixuntilme thinks otherwise. “Every doctor has [an EMR], but none of those records talk to one another,” she tweeted. “We need an EMR cloud.”

And this is just one of a thousand observations like it.

10 things you hate about your EMR | Healthcare IT News

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