The Wall Street Journal published an article last week on the
10 things medical records won't tell you. I have condensed the list, so you get the idea...
- COST: The price tag is HUGE!
- SHARING IMPORTANT CLINICAL INFORMATION between providers is a myth. Even high-price tag enterprise level systems do not do this well, or cannot, especially between different hospitals and doctors.
- DOCTORS HATE IT in general and pretty consistently, especially if forced to use it by their hospital, the government, or partners.
- DOCTORS HAVE LESS TIME to spend with patients...because they have to fiddle with machines.
- PRIVACY physicians may employ strangers such as scribes to manage there cumbersome EHR into the previously sacred and secure doctor-patient relationship.
- ERRORS MAGNIFIED mistakes are easier to make; just hit the wrong key, or have a voice recognition system hear "no chest pain" instead of "known chest pain".
- INFORMATION OVERLOAD TMI- too much information...sometimes, in fact most of the time, we just don't need or want to read "War & Peace" on every patient, and only a section of the total is needed in any clinical situation. But the EHR commonly gives it all. No one, especially not clinicians, have the time to read it.
- IDENTITY THEFT EHR's contain much of your demographic information--social security, payment, address, phone, work schedule, etc. They are therefore a fertile ground for the thieves that prey on such things.
- YOU BECOME A MARKETING STATISTIC your information will be marketed and sold e.g. to pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, etc.
- BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING the government can and will track the events that occur in medical interactions through EHRs. The requirements and criteria for this sort of tracking are already in place.
Choose an Electronic Health Record that has thoroughly considered these complaints and actively deals with them. Complaint #10- government policies and incentives is the biggest driver in turning to EHR.
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