My question is: who looks at all those notes anyway except the lawyers? g A disproportionate amount of time is spent in my opinion on that aspect of EMR, rather than on workflow. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy Michael O'Leary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 4:57 PM Subject: Re: Paperless medical record...and Provider Productivity
> At 07:57 PM Wednesday 2/12/03 +0000, you wrote: > >On Wednesday 12 February 2003 16:39, Tripp, Bryan wrote: > > > This is interesting. The author claims that "handwriting is > > > such an automatic activity", which seems right to me in this > > > context, in that handwriting interferes very little with > > > listening. Why? > >I agree, what he says about that is pure bullshit. > >What it means is that things he does he regards as natural, and > >other things he doesn't want to do. > > yup - as someone who always had atrocious handwriting - I now can't use a > pen and paper for much more than writing down a phone number. I seriously > find it difficult to think / write these days without a keyboard. I am not > a touch typist but I regard a keyboard as natural and don't see how anyone > can write with a pen and paper. > > I am old enough the remember the days of walking into health services, say > a Psychiatric Hospital and being shown a patient file about 4 inches thick > full of writing over several years, with hardly one bit of useful > information able to be extracted - even if the writing could be read. The > resistance then by some staff was to structuring notes in anyway other than > a long rambling novella badly written. " we'll lose the story" -"you are > forcing us / patients into boxes" > > My GP now has his monitor facing me, we look at my record and warnings etc > together, he clicks his mouse and types a bit, i suggest things he enters > them i can read it. This a huge improvement on his old small cards on which > he scribbled some badly written cryptic notes - which even he has trouble > reading if he has to go back to. > > aah natural - nature is after all a human construct too. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > TIM O'LEARY > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.strategos.com.au >
