Note: This post originally appeared in Pennsylvania Physician magazine and is reprinted with permission. Read the entire summer 2015 edition. The thought of a method for logging medical records in a way that makes sense and is easy to do drove me to seek an electronic health record (EHR) system when I started my solo…
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5 Reasons Why Health IT Is Worth the Risk
Security breaches are reported every day. The safety of health information, and the clear fact that there are government-sponsored hackers out there, make us all the more concerned about the safety and security of our health information, now often stored in some protected cloud, or on a server somewhere, and soon available (theoretically to only…
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EMRs: Stop Complaining and Start Asking Why Not
Quick, name the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) criteria for strep pharyngitis. That next patient you see, tell me when their last labs were done, what health maintenance they are due for or have already done, what their medication list is, what their chronic problems are, allergies, and when you last saw them and for…
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Why this Generation of Physicians Will Not Be the Same as the Others
During my training days, one of my finest memories of roundsmanship was watching two esteemed senior physicians in the same specialty duke it out for the better treatment regimen of a patient. After spending hours in the library tediously searching the indexes of every major American journal and textbook for references to the disease in…
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