> I ask because in any surveys of local doctors who lack ANY EMR (they > just have appointment scheduling and billing) their first desire > would be to have a system to look after > - the filing, organization, storage and retrieval of test results and/or fairly easy
> - prescription (medication) management fairly to very complex depending on scope, eg. simple medication tracking vs complete, functional script writer > The above can be tremendously useful even while a doctor otherwise > maintains a paper record. True. Adding in scanned document management even eases the burden that's building up in the paper record... > I cannot however see that an EMR in which > one enters notes well, notes only IS a use case for at least one doctor I've talked to - he's a psychiatrist > and vaccinations vaccs only is a valid use case for my Mom at least, I have had other Peds ask for a "good" vaccs tracking package ... > and views scanned documents handling docs is a use case for my parents - and others I've talked to Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
