Doctors using electronic medical records

LasMa
Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:21:02 +0000

Paper files get lost and mis-filed all the time. Computer files always there so no file searches to find the DR left it somewhere and forgot.



They may be there, but they can’t always be accessed. A few months ago, I had an appointment with my doctor to discuss the results of a medical test. I happened to have the first appointment on a Monday morning following a weekend in which the EMR system had been upgraded. Naturally, it wasn’t working perfectly and my doctor could not pull up my test results. We had a general discussion about the condition – nothing I hadn’t already learned on the internet – but she could not give me any information about my case. As it turned out, there were some anomalies in my case which we’ve been dealing with over the phone ever since, inefficiently. We could have had a simple 10-minute conversation that day IF the record had been where it was supposed to be. That visit was a total waste of time and money.