Doctors using electronic medical records

Lafalum84
Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:28:09 +0000

My primary care physician’s practiced switched to electronic records 2 years ago, and now my doctor barely looks at me. She spends the entire appointment typing, and therefore looking at the screen. The only time she looks at me is when she’s actually doing the exam. I don’t think its a good thing.

My dermatologist, on the other hand, uses a scribe. The computer is at a table on the side, and as the derm does the exam she dictates to the scribe who types it in. This seems to work really efficiently.

However, if every doctor had a scribe I assume that would raise the cost of medical care.

When my husband was recently in the hospital, the nurses came in pushing carts with laptops on them. They recorded everything on the laptop, but they were still able to look at the patient and do the procedures that needed to be done.