When the #ACA was implemented: there was no mandate established to ensure that #emr #ehr electronic medical records could communicate and physicians could obtain medical records from #doctors caring for the same patients at other offices or hospitals. 1/
https://twitter.com/reasobbob/status/1382859388831080448
What ensued was that the government forces practices to an incur most of the cost of buying expensive electronic medical records and forced them to use them or incur more financial penalties. In retrospect those who did not use #emr and #ehr benefitted 2/
It became impossible to afford an #emr #ehr in a private practice
costs include:
1. Computers
2. Network maintenance
3. Wi-Fi
4. Back-up systems
5. #emr #ehr Licenses
6. Cost of repairs
7. Reduction of time with patients
8. Increase typing-dictating time
9. Longer notes 3/
costs include:
1. Computers
2. Network maintenance
3. Wi-Fi
4. Back-up systems
5. #emr #ehr Licenses
6. Cost of repairs
7. Reduction of time with patients
8. Increase typing-dictating time
9. Longer notes 3/
The #ACA law is at fault as it should have established provisions for a patient to give consent to interchange all their medical information across all systems -
This simple rule would have created a great #ehr #emr system 4/
This simple rule would have created a great #ehr #emr system 4/
The current #emr #ehr is a multi-billion dollars glorified typewriter
1. It does not communicate
2. Creates inefficiency
3. Costly
4. Time consuming
5. Dangerous to the patient
6. Created an #emr #ehr industry
7. Created the medical job of scribe 5/
1. It does not communicate
2. Creates inefficiency
3. Costly
4. Time consuming
5. Dangerous to the patient
6. Created an #emr #ehr industry
7. Created the medical job of scribe 5/
A recent study showed that for every 8 hours a #doctor sees patients, he works on the #emr #ehr for 5 hours. The public pays tax dollars for this...
The #emr systems sell the information and profit from the data input by #healthcare workers 6/
The #emr systems sell the information and profit from the data input by #healthcare workers 6/
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