How Electronic Medical Records Have Hurt Primary Care
Two more recent studies I didn’t mention last week documented how little influence electronic medical records (EMRs) had on outpatient care. One study measured 20 markers of quality between practices...
View ArticleHow the National Quality Foundation Dumbs Down Family Medicine
The National Quality Foundation is a non-profit founded in 1999 as a collaborative effort between representatives of many healthcare entities. Its description of itself from its website reads:...
View ArticleLoss of Professional Joy
Larry Bauer, who is a leader in family medicine education in the northeast U.S., sent out a link to a piece written by teacher who complained about the over-emphasis on standardized tests in secondary...
View ArticleAn Early Demented Example of Big-Data Silliness
According to an article in Health Data Management, the Center for Brain Health at NorthShore University Health System in the Chicago area will use the organization’s electronic health records (Epic)...
View ArticleThe Cost of Health Information Technology
From the mid- to late-2000s, lots of pundits got into the business of shoving electronic medial records (EMRs)down doctors’ throats. There were a few incentives from the Feds to help with the upfront...
View ArticleThe AAFP and Payment Reform — They’re Screwing It Up, Again, Part 1-...
Over my career, the American Academy of Family Physicians, my primary professional society, has made some colossal mistakes in what it has chosen to advocate for. It has learned from its past mistakes,...
View ArticleEMRs and Medication Errors
A study from the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority found that in half of the medication errors in healthcare facilities, the leading factor was the computerized physician order entry (CPOE)...
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The Burdens of the Electronic Medical Record
A fantastic new study has once again documented the incredible burden of EMRs on U.S. family physicians. Researchers observed 982 family physician-patient encounters in clinics associated with 10...
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