The Tyranny Of Electronic Medical Records - A Cry From The Heart For Improvement.

This appeared earlier in the week.Our Hospital ’s New Software Frets About My ‘Deficiencies’But the patient records system, called Epic, has a few shortcomings of its own, including a voice that amplifies the insecurities that come with being a doctor. By Emily Silverman, M.D.·         Nov. 1, 2019We had been waiting for this day for years — the day our hospital in San Francisco would shed its antiquated electronic health records system in favor of a more modern alternative called Epic, which has been, or will soon be, adopted by many of the nation’s top medical centers. Our hospital was full of strangers in turquoise T-shirts, ca lled Epic Superusers, who provided “at the elbow support” for the staff, there to usher in the “death of the legacy system” (as the administrators’ emails put it) and the birth of a new, well, epoch.But on a recent Monday morning when I logged into so-called Epic Hyperspace for the first t ime, I was greeted with a pop-up... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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