NY Times: What Times Readers Would Change About Their Doctors’ Offices

My pet peeves are the failure to join the 21st century: an insistence on faxing things – who, besides doctors’ offices does that? Why can’t I forward down loaded medical records electronically???

And why isn’t there a national system for electronic medical records? Why don’t the systems communicate? One of the main benefits of emr is unavailable.

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