MedPage Today February 8, 2018
Fred N. Pelzman, MD

It doesn’t have to be an oxymoron

Let’s build a patient-centered electronic medical record.

You may think we have one, but if we are going to be truly honest you know there is nothing patient-centered (or even provider-centered) about it.

As we all know, the electronic behemoths that have been created for us to document clinical encounters in were not designed primarily by physicians taking care of people, but were created to build a compliant billing instrument and safe and easy place to click away at documentation that may or may not have happened.

We’ve all grown tired of reading charts that go on for page after page providing no useful clinical information, contain answers to questions that we know...

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