I agree here with some of the comments. Being I am in this business, I see many offices not adequately trained, thus they are still trying to manage a multitude of documents instead of letting the software do this for them. Sometimes old dogs just refuse to learn new tricks as the old saying goes and to not utilize the features in the software and continue to rely on faxing and creating paper files in addition to the electronic records works a real hardship on the support staff as well as the MDs. This brings me back to my favorite subject....TRAINING and getting everyone to buy in with the MDs at the top of the helm as the captains of the ship. By doing both, you actually make it more difficult for all and this is where some of the bad taste for EMRs comes in. Storing a ton of Word documents on a drive is not the answer to going paperless by any means. BD
"The question is, how do we translate these findings from big institutions with lots of resources out to where most of the care is being given," Crosson said. "The technology itself won't enhance the process, but rather the people in the practice working on ways to improve quality have to ask 'how can they use this tool?'"
"Just having electronic medical records is simply not enough," added Dr. John Hsu, a physician scientist in the division of research at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif. "How you integrate it into clinical practice is critical."
Hsu noted that many of the offices had rudimentary electronic systems which are underpowered with limited information-handling abilities. "It is not a question of whether we should use electronic medical records," Hsu said. "It is a question of when and how should we use them."
Source: E-Medical Records No Shortcut to Good Diabetes Care - Yahoo! News
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