Easier storage and more accountability are the big benefits from them.
An interface menu. You click to open a patient's chart. There is a separate box you need to click to open a window to type in the history. Now you click out of it to save and have to move to another section. Click another box to open the physical exam and document in there. You forgot to note one thing in the history. You back track to open that window back up. Now you move down to assessment and open a box that opens another box that has several other boxes to fill in medication/lab/imaging/procedure orders. Each of those are separate boxes in which you then have to search through a database to find the exact descriptor of what you want. By the way there is another separate box you need to back track three "layers" to reach where you want to send the prescription to electronically. At each level, a pop up of an entirely useless warning comes up that you have to click out of.
EMRs are as if the world went back to early 90s-era computing. They're software from hell. They don't help doctors and nurses do their job. Like I said, fill it out ad nauseum exactly like the insurance company wants or they use it as justification to not pay you. It leads to doctors copy-pasting templates that don't document what went on as well as old paper charts did.
Granted, EMRs could be great if they weren't tethered to billing.
So they just need them be redesigned to be useful and allow doctors to freely share them with other doctors and things would work great. ---
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