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Melanoma and Cell Therapy medical oncologist @MSKCancerCenter. More of a reader than a tweeter, these days. He/Him. COI: https://t.co/L9ZLcmXYxX

Jan 17, 2018, 5 tweets

Reviewing records for clinic prep; for umpteenth time, outside CT printout (from pt's "mychart") doesn't include date of scan. #EMR design flaws abound; help me confess other #EMRsins @LeahJWitt @FutureDocs @RielyMD @adamcifu @DrMiguelPerales @jasonlukemd @OmidHamidMD

#EMRsins when outside practitioners refuse to use dates and repeatedly copy forward references to "recently," "yesterday," and "soon."

#EMRsins when someone misspells a common medicine on the home med list and it takes longer for you to edit it than it would to just rewrite the damn Rx

#EMRsins when auto-fax and other sharing features fail to account for MD's changed fax/email and also fail to notify you that it didn't send.

#EMRsins "home med list" captures three entries for vicodin/vicodan/vicadin but not the pembrolizumab catalyzing the autoimmune hepatitis

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