Your electronic health record may lack vital information

A guest column by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, exclusive to KevinMD.com. When you walk into any physician’s office or hospital, computers are everywhere.  By 2013, nearly 70 percent of hospitals had moved away from paper charts and toward electronic health records, or EHRs, and more are making the change every day. From the patient’s point of view, it’s reasonable to think that the EHR will know everything about you.  But you might be surprised to know how many pieces of paper your hospital chart may still contain.  And we should all be aware — even alarmed — about all the gaps in critical information that may exist in any patient’s computerized record. Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
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