MedPage Today April 29, 2024
— Electronic health records aren’t delivering on their promise of fewer paper forms
The scattered minutia of our lives only adds to the chaos.
The other day, I got a message in our electronic health record from one of the front desk staff, about a form that had been faxed in to our office, they had then scanned it into the chart, put the paper copy in my mailbox, and advised me to call the patient’s homecare nurse after it had been completed and faxed back.
Simultaneously, I got an email from a separate portal created by that same visiting nurse service with an electronic version of the same form, requesting that I sign that one. And later that day,...
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