On Sep 19, 2006, at 3:41 PM, Richard Terry wrote:
Office should be setup so that the patient sits side -by side with the
doctor/desk, and patient can see the screen which the doctor is
accessing.
As my province embarks on electronic medical records (EMRs), we just
had a special meeting of our College of Physicians (provincial
regulatory body) in which we had our counterparts from the adjacent
province talk to us about data stewardship and other "words to the
wise". That adjacent province (Alberta) is 5-7 years into a program
of trying to assist EMRs to get used in medical practice and the
point made above was among those made... that patients get very
frustrated if they see you typing stuff into a computer but cannot
see what you are inputting... kind of calls to mind comedy parodies
of what a (bad) interview e.g. with the psychiatrist *could* be like.
IOW the point was that the doctor should *expect* the patient to take
an interest in what is going into the computer and to conduct
themselves and set up the computer (which I suppose also means the
GUI <grin>) accordingly.
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