PDF Article: Electronic health records- A primer for practicing physicians

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I came across this on the 'net. I thought that it would make for good discussion. Nick, Robert- might wish to place a link to this in the "Showcase" section. It was written by the Co-director, Medical Informatics Fellowship Program at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. I may disagree with a few of his overly hyped statements that EMRs can cure all the ills of our medical system, but it makes for a generally informative, good read.

Electronic health records: A primer for practicing physicians

■ ABSTRACT
Electronic health records (EHRs) offer a number of advantages over the old paper record. They have the potential to improve the quality of patient care, reduce the cost of health care, and expedite the transfer of information. Yet fewer than 20% of hospitals and physician practices now use them.We discuss the advantages of EHRs, reasons for adopting this system, current barriers to the adoption of EHRs, and issues to consider when choosing a system.

URL: http://www.ccjm.org/ccjm_pdfs_toc/Nov07_Mehta.pdf

Al Borges, M.D.

● Oncologist in a Small Group Practice in Virginia

● My website URL: http://msofficeemrproject.com/

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Brendon replied on 02-19-2008 7:21 AM

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AL,

Very nice find. I agreed with most of the article. Especially the part about integrating the old record. Many Systems don't even offer a real good solution even if you have the resources to get it in the chart.

I did not agree that the Smaller Vendors are unable to integrate new technologies into the product as fast as the big software manufactures. Everyone knows that smaller vendors can build more techonology features in the application faster then bigger user based application software because of the number of users effected by change. Legacy applications suffer countless hours working on this. Once done though, larger manufactures have very professional implementation of these technologies built Ford Tough or Industrial, however you want to view it.

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B

Brendon Holt President http://www.holtsystems.com eMedRec Medical Records Made Friendly "If it wasn't for that last minute I would never get anything done."

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Nick Harrington replied on 02-19-2008 10:31 AM

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Thanks Al for the resource, and Brendon for the follow-up

Therefore -- Robert ('s personal assistant) has created a new Links and Resources section where we can periodically add these articles and resources. I do want to link back to the originating Forum Post (that recommends a link) so that Doctors can weigh the relevance and argument for and against whatever a resources sets out. This I think lends more value to Linked Resource giving a weight to its worth on the forum.

http://www.emrupdate.com/blogs/emr101/archive/2008/02/19/links-and-resources.aspx

If you have a link or resource to recommend, post it into the EMR forum for peer review and comment. We eventually get around to picking up the good links and keeping these in a resources location.

Nick

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alborg replied on 02-19-2008 7:46 PM

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Nice idea, Nick! If an article gets Brendon and I to agree 80%, it's got to be well written...

Al

Al Borges, M.D.

● Oncologist in a Small Group Practice in Virginia

● My website URL: http://msofficeemrproject.com/

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