Comments on: More Joys of Electronic Medical Records

By: fallconsmate

fallconsmate — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 23:29:18 +0000

i’m late to the party but…

my doctor’s office is fully electronic, no paper records at all. she clicked the wrong area my last visit and erased all record of me taking blood pressure medication.

i do not like this totally paperless world…while its good in SOME ways, in others there is SO much room for problems.

By: tracy

tracy — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:51:43 +0000

i can only imagine the “fun”. Bless all the Nurses of the world!

By: CodeBlue

CodeBlue — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:27:09 +0000

My hospital does CPOE with meditech, and will be forcing us to adopt pDOC- the meditech charting within the next year. Anybody have experience with this? It looks awful.

By: LC

LC — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:12:31 +0000

It’s all terrible – add on top of the fact that now that CPOE is live in so many places they (administration) asks “so now that you don’t enter orders. what is it a pharmacist does and why do we need so many”….
wow, i guess all we used to do is enter orders and the techs fill orders because “why can’t a tech just hit “verify” because that’s all you do”

uh huh….

So you do more, and we’re told we do nothing

By: Jennifer Isaacs

Jennifer Isaacs — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:58:59 +0000

I worked at two different institutions which both used EPIC. One of them had customized EPIC in a way that was mostly palatable for my use. The other institution’s EPIC was crap

By: NurseBeth

NurseBeth — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:52:56 +0000

Well, yes. Welcome to the *emergency* dept! And if they are all eating cheetos, their complaint will be “nausea and vomiting”.

By: tracy

tracy — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:14:15 +0000

i once called my Physician’s EMR an “EDMR”…..you can only imagine the jokes from him that followed…..

By: tracy

tracy — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:12:34 +0000

Ha! If the kids are all “running around the room yelling” they sound pretty healthy!

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:43:59 +0000

Epic is crap. The only reason it is popular is forBILLING. Otherwise it is a shitty program

By: Ally

Ally — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:53:23 +0000

Ugh. As a nurse, every time this happens I’m just waiting for the moment when I make a medication error. When there’s 5 kids super-close in age and 2 adults all in the same room, and the doc wants to give meds to 2 of the 5 kids, who are all running around the room yelling…pretty easy to give the wrong stuff to the wrong kid.