https://blogs.callutheran.edu/pwitman/2012/01/09/electronic-medical-records-%e2%80%93-what-if-the-doc-can%e2%80%99t-or-wont-use-them/ Musings on the intersection of Technology and Organizations Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:34:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 https://blogs.callutheran.edu/pwitman/2012/01/09/electronic-medical-records-%e2%80%93-what-if-the-doc-can%e2%80%99t-or-wont-use-them/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:34:11 +0000 http://blogs.callutheran.edu/pwitman/?p=170#comment-12 I recently had an experience with electronic records at my doctor’s office. Instead of my doctor asking me routine questions from a paper on a clipboard, she had a whole document on the computer where she could just check off boxes for things we talked about and places where she could type in added comments. It was so different seeing my doctor working on the computer instead of with a pen and paper. I can certainly see the benefit of using the computer for patient information since it saves paper and is probably much more convenient for the doctors to find and use. It also makes it much easier to send records to another doctor or, in my case, having the prescribed medication on the patients’ records automatically emailed to the pharmacy. It always makes me a little bit nervous though when the physical documentation is eliminated entirely. As unlikely as this is to happen, if something were to happen and the documents could not be recovered, there are no paper records to refer back to. Overall though, it seems to be a good way to save time and paper.

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