NY Times article on EMR - Dedos Huesudos Posted: May 18th, 2018 - 2:39 pm
How Tech Can Turn Doctors Into Clerical Workers
The threat that electronic health records and machine learning pose to physicians’ clinical judgment — and their well-being.
"My young colleague slumping in the chair in my office survived the student years, then three years of internship and residency and is now a full-time practitioner and teacher. The despair I hear comes from being the highest-paid clerical worker in the hospital: For every one hour we spend cumulatively with patients, studies have shown, we spend nearly two hours on our primitive Electronic Health Records, or “E.H.R.s,” and another hour or two during sacred personal time. But we are to blame. We let this happen to our trainees, to ourselves."
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