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EMR LAMENTS
Regrets? They've Had a Few
A short list of what
Outpatient Surgery Magazine readers wish their EMRs could do:
• "It should be able to integrate with all other healthcare facilities and providers to fulfill the vision of what it was meant to be. This unfortunately will not be the case."
• "Review all current medications as a group rather than individually. Many of our patients have 15 to 20 medications and each needs to be reviewed/renewed on each visit."
• "A fully integrated system, not a bunch of hodgepodge interfaces."
• "Need two-way communication between hospital and clinic records. Currently, hospital reports go to clinic, but no clinic records can go to hospital."
• "EMR delivers a slower, much poorer quality, more expensive documentation system than the trained nurse's brain/eye/hand delivers with well-designed and formatted paper medical records. Experienced nurses cannot stand using them. Doesn't this tell us something?"
• "In a fast-paced environment, patient satisfaction and safety are key, and focusing on a computer screen instead of the patient does not accomplish those goals."
• "Our software doesn't always act nicely with our scheduling system."
