Comments on: The Bane of Electronic Medical Records

By: emr

emr — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:49:39 +0000

This is a very interesting post onIT and health care joining together for maximum efficiency. I still believe that our private info should not be transferred digitally, only stored digitally and not connected to the web in anyway.

By: Andrew_M_Garland

Andrew_M_Garland — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:31:54 +0000

To Jim,

I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic. If not, do you look forward to medical care delivered under a system similar to the Dept. of Motor Vehicles?

Do you think WhiteCoat has to “grow up”? I don’t.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:51:57 +0000

The depersonalization of medicine will be worth it. Time to grow up doctors! This is not about having fun at the office; this is about saving people’s lives. Get to it!

By: petunia

petunia — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:05:08 +0000

I am a hospice nurse who is expected to document each patient visit while in the home. We do our documentation on computers…

I stopped documenting in the home (for the most part) when patients started apologizing for keeping me from my work.

I forget, wasn’t I supposed to focus on the patient’s needs during visits to his/her home?

By: Andrew_M_Garland

Andrew_M_Garland — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:45:04 +0000

What will JCAHO do when they swab the computer keyboards and find bacterial farms growing on and under the keys?

If a patient sneezes near a keyboard do you throw it out? Wait until it is sanitized before continuing to use it? Wear disposable surgical gloves when typing, then discard?

How do you disinfect a keyboard? Dip it in alcohol? Is a wipe enough?

Do you think UV lights positioned over each keyboard would solve the problem?

Will the doctors, nurses, and patients then need to wear wraparound UV rated glasses to protect themselves from the lights?

Am I joking, or is this real?

By: throckmorton

throckmorton — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:03:56 +0000

Having the dubious honor of fielding compliments and complaints about care at our medical center, I have yet to have a patient report that “they are glad that we have an EMR”. I do have hundreds of complaints that “the nurses pay more attention to the computers than the patients”, that “the nurses can never be found because they are always on the computers” and the best “I hope your f++++ computer is ok because I am dying here!”