Doctors using electronic medical records

Shrinkrap
Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:38:09 +0000

Icarus, if you use one, which one, and what specialty?

What I do (C and A Psych) is keep a paper record with things that would be text entries, but enter stuff that lends itself to check-boxes and simple drop-downs, and collecting data like age, gender, diagnosis, medication, tests, symptoms, etc. That way when I need to communicate with another doc, I send a printout of that sort of stuff, though it really doesn’t tell “the story”.

For my husband (FP), I think it has increased the number of hours he works without reimbursement. He has always charted at home, but now he has access to so much stuff from home, and he seems to need to “finish” everything. Me? not so much…