Hosted EHR outage
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@Dashrender said:
From what I can tell, drs are now required to document a lot more than they used to.
Also, drs used to walk out of a room and rattle off a list of things to do to the nurses, now the doc is responsible to put those orders in the system themselves. I figure this is to ensure the proper orders entered, and If wrong, the only one to blame is the doc.
Yes, I did a lot of EHR studies in my graduate studies and a ton of that stuff is to correct mistakes and shortcomings of the past. Doctors have developers quite a reputation for not being that concerned with good documentation of clients. Things that IT pros care about pretty commonly for computers, doctors often don't care about with humans.
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A doctor was reading what was required of him for documentation and basically said that it was too much information to give and he should decide what is necessary to document. I also heard office staff whine that they would actually have to provide vital signs for visits.
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My specialty drs don't feel its their responsibility to talk to patients who are fat about their weight problem, that is the internist job.
Said goes for vitals, etc.
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@Dashrender said:
My specialty drs don't feel its their responsibility to talk to patients who are fat about their weight problem, that is the internist job.
Said goes for vitals, etc.
This is why the US lags the rest of the world in healthcare. In the southwest, people cross the border into Mexico to get better healthcare out of pocket!!
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@technobabble said:
A doctor was reading what was required of him for documentation and basically said that it was too much information to give and he should decide what is necessary to document. I also heard office staff whine that they would actually have to provide vital signs for visits.
Imagine if IT pros said that about keeping baseline information on systems. Just shows the horrifically low standard that we set for doctors here. It's no wonder no one trusts them. If they were junior system admins, they'd be fired. No one needs useless "professionals" who know so little about or care so little about their careers or their charges.
