I remember vividly when the weekly meetings at Hospice back in 2005 give or take morphed from a group of concerned people talking about dying to a group of people staring at their screens. Awful.
As a retired ER doc who chose to volunteer at a downtown free clinic for a few yrs. (no remuneration), I quit when some administrator person decided to go to EMR. For 12-15 patiets per shift, totally unnecessary. / F. Black
The government and payers love it. They can see everything you do. The new EMRs with AI. will catch mistakes or things it does not agree with you and stop your entries. (we are here to help (save) you.
For a time, at the practice where I'm a patient, the MD was accompanied by a "scribe" who entered notes into a laptop. That seemed to work well, so more recently has been abolished.
I agree that healthcare providers spend far too much time entering data and performing mindless repetitive clicks in the EMR. Time spent documenting for the purposes of satisfying billing and QA requirements is time stolen from our patients. The documentation burden continues to grow. Use of an EMR has not been a timesaver for any frontline user. As a nurse who has been in the field for 40 years, there are only two positive things I can say about the EMR. 1. Physician order entry has reduced errors and misunderstandings over illegible handwriting. 2. Bar code scanning at the bedside has reduced medicine administration errors. The rest of it is just mindnumbing.
I remember vividly when the weekly meetings at Hospice back in 2005 give or take morphed from a group of concerned people talking about dying to a group of people staring at their screens. Awful.
Now you must submit....pharma or software vendor. Do not resist. Resistance is futile ! (the borg)
Totally agree, Pandora’s box once opened can never be shut again.
I totally agree with Edwin's comments on EMR. They slowed my patient turnover at least 25% in the ER
As a retired ER doc who chose to volunteer at a downtown free clinic for a few yrs. (no remuneration), I quit when some administrator person decided to go to EMR. For 12-15 patiets per shift, totally unnecessary. / F. Black
The government and payers love it. They can see everything you do. The new EMRs with AI. will catch mistakes or things it does not agree with you and stop your entries. (we are here to help (save) you.
For a time, at the practice where I'm a patient, the MD was accompanied by a "scribe" who entered notes into a laptop. That seemed to work well, so more recently has been abolished.
I agree that healthcare providers spend far too much time entering data and performing mindless repetitive clicks in the EMR. Time spent documenting for the purposes of satisfying billing and QA requirements is time stolen from our patients. The documentation burden continues to grow. Use of an EMR has not been a timesaver for any frontline user. As a nurse who has been in the field for 40 years, there are only two positive things I can say about the EMR. 1. Physician order entry has reduced errors and misunderstandings over illegible handwriting. 2. Bar code scanning at the bedside has reduced medicine administration errors. The rest of it is just mindnumbing.