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Easy Steps to a Low-Cost Electronic Medical Record If you know how to use modern word-processing software, you can create your own electronic medical records.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Jue, Jack Jerant, Anthony F. |
| Copyright Year | 2001 |
| Abstract | Although electronic medical records (EMRs) have been available for over 20 years,1 primary care physicians have been notoriously slow to embrace them. Currently, only about 5 percent of physicians use some form of EMR,2 and few have employed systems that require physicians to enter data directly at the point of care. Three fundamental misperceptions have contributed to the slow acceptance of direct physician-entry EMRs. The first is that the use of such systems will impair the physician-patient interaction and lead to decreased patient satisfaction. This is the easiest misperception to correct, since literature already indicates patients in general respond favorably to EMRs.3 In this article, we hope to debunk the other two misperceptions – that EMRs are cost-prohibitive and that direct chart entry decreases physician efficiency – by describing a low-cost, efficient, word-processor-based system that is already being used successfully in a busy family practice. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.aafp.org/fpm/2001/0500/p33.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
