http://www.overheardinprovidence.com/2007/07/17/electronic-medical-records-for-all/ A blog by EERac Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:37:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.overheardinprovidence.com/2007/07/17/electronic-medical-records-for-all/comment-page-1/#comment-459 Jay Andrews Sat, 23 May 2009 16:15:33 +0000 http://www.overheardinprovidence.com/2007/07/17/electronic-medical-records-for-all/#comment-459 The idea behind electronic health records is to have a computer-based history of a patient's cliThe big benefit of this computerization is that it is easy for a new doctor to pull a patient's historynical and administrative details. The idea behind electronic health records is to have a computer-based history of a patient’s cliThe big benefit of this computerization is that it is easy for a new doctor to pull a patient’s historynical and administrative details.

]]> http://www.overheardinprovidence.com/2007/07/17/electronic-medical-records-for-all/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Rachel Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:01:10 +0000 http://www.overheardinprovidence.com/2007/07/17/electronic-medical-records-for-all/#comment-4 I agree! EMRs are a great idea - but there are a bunch of different companies working on it, so there are still going to be major compatibility issues. Since we don't have a national system for ANYTHING health related, if you go to a different hospital/doctor, they probably wont' be able to get your previous records electronically. Hopefully this glitch will sort itself out and we will all be medical-error free. yay! I agree! EMRs are a great idea – but there are a bunch of different companies working on it, so there are still going to be major compatibility issues. Since we don’t have a national system for ANYTHING health related, if you go to a different hospital/doctor, they probably wont’ be able to get your previous records electronically. Hopefully this glitch will sort itself out and we will all be medical-error free. yay!

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