One of my favorite bloggers has this post on why she has problems with EMRs and using reminders for tracking what happens when she orders lab work on her patients and either the lab or the patient doesn’t follow up. This seems to be a big issue, because her experience seems typical: there are dozens of systems that each doctor has to access to assemble the entire patient chart, and these systems don’t always talk to each other.
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All is does is inject one more factor with no understanding of sick people in between the patient and the folks who want to try to help them.
It does make the powerful and the control freaks feel good though.
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