My doctor spends more time looking at the computer than he spends looking at me.
Don’t worry, the Obama Administration will start working on a new systems in 2017.
Same here! I noticed it the last couple of times I’ve been to see my doctor. The visit feels less personable now.
I go with an elderly relative to her doctors appointments plus I have elderly folks who see a lot of docs. Of all the doctors they see, only one has figured out a system that keeps him freed up to talk to & examine his patients without being totally preoccupied with the laptop/records update/input. This doctor has TWO extra people who help him out ... one before he comes in and one who comes in with him, laptop on wheels & she listens & does all the input. His office is also the most efficient office I’ve ever been in .... he is married to the office manager & she is excellent.
From all I’ve seen/experienced, it’s to the point where I think as destructive as Obamacare has been on so many levels, those who wrote it and voted for this horror should be charged criminally .... fraud & abuse would be good for starters.
Close personal friend doc says his productivity has been reduced by at least 30% with the new EMR.
I was in the EMR business in ‘96/’97 as a exec with a subsidiary of Eli Lilly - the whole idea then was to improve doc efficiency.
The whole problem with the development of EMR was one thing: the systems were NOT developed by physicians, but by computer types who have no idea how a doc thinks and works.
Now the systems are killing docs, and the different systems can’t even communicate with each other - a nightmare.