So I was out walking in the cold early this morning in my never-ending Battle of the Bulge, when an idea occurred to me. Amongst all the heated debate on healthcare reform over the past few years, one thing I have consistently heard from multiple sources is a call for greater implementation of electronic health records.
As a physician, I have heard many folks not involved in providing healthcare decry physicians for not embracing this great panacea, as though a profession which typically dwells on the cutting edge of technological achievement when it comes to diagnostic and therapeutic modalities is for some mysterious reason determined to remain total luddites when it comes to maintaining records of their patients. Continue reading ‘About Electronic Health Records’
