Good input, and with you 100% as far as it goes. - What we see now is not "it," though. Posted: Jul 25th, 2017 - 2:00 pm In Reply to: You make some good points.... - but the other side
One huge problem, of course, is not the EHR itself but rather that more and more physicians are now employees who are expected to work increasingly faster, harder, and longer, including taking on what used to be clerical and assistant tasks. And for less money.
If we put a leash back on business and get greed under control, practitioners will be able to once again apply themselves to tasks only they can do, and what they be much happier and and less mistake prone.
Notably, we're in a transition period when greed, exploitation, continued change that makes everything obsolete before it's installed, and just plain mistaken decision making is making things unnecessarily hard for them.
The solution isn't in the past, though. Mercifully, because it's gone.
Before long virtually all "clerical" assistance, plus incredibly knowledgeable clinical-side assistance, will be provided by the computers that will replace both almost all of what our industry does and what they really shouldn't be doing. The technology is already here, just needs to be plugged in.
And that will also take care of much of the remaining sloppiness. Super-intelligent computers, programmed to require adherence to legal and institutional standards, can scan files to fill in simple, verified information, even correct simple errors; return flagged items to the sloppy ones for handling; and monitor all practitioners on a single case, all departments, and all institutions far more thoroughly than any supervisor or administrator working without them.
That alone seems yet another, huge reason we absolutely have to get business off our backs and ourselves released from the cages they're building around us. Business must not control what's coming.
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