I ran across this article on Linked in awhile back and i thought i would give my two cents. http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=&articleID=798783699&gid=4050358&type=news&item=798783699&articleURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ehealthcareitnews%2Ecom%2Fblog%2Fgadgets-toys-and-ipadsbut-when-are-we-going-get-serious-about-emr&urlhash=qOkx&goback=%2Egmr_4050358%2Eanb_4050358_*2
here are some of the statements that stood out to me:
Talking to doctors about an EMR makes them run the other way or just simply tune out the speaker even with all of the government incentives and impending penalties by Medicare and Medicaid.
This reaction by most doctors is truly not hard to understand. EMR’s to most doctors simply means scanning in paper records or playing with a PC or tablet that is going to slow down their production while seeing patients. The problem is truly simple. Give doctors an application on a gadget like the iPad that will take the repetition out of their daily work and you will see EMR adoption by physicians take place faster than a tornado or hurricane. As they say, “the devil is in the details” and it truly is.
Provide physicians with a standardized database that follows the workflow for their specialty where the doctor only has to document the 20% of abnormal findings and watch EMR adoption go through the roof. You will not have to convince a doctor very hard to eliminate 80% of their repetitious documentation. Now place this EMR application on an iPad or similar mobile platform that runs on the cloud and the biggest problem with be filling back orders.
One thing that constantly bothers me about EMR / EHR software is the thought process that using a templated system is the most effective. as mentioned in this article “A template based system has been designed backwards. The physician enters data into a template selected by diagnosis or presenting problem then the application pushes the data into the backend database. ”
When i read this article it really spoke to me and reinforced the importance of a well designed EHR/EMR product and how close we at Digital Physician are hitting the mark.
Digital Physician is currently completing the Progress Notes / Chart Notes section of the EHR and the goals we have internally match quite well with the authors sentiment.
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