What Interoperable EHRs Might Have Done to Improve the Patient Care Experience

What Interoperable EHRs Might Have Done to Improve the Patient Care Experience

The author insists that patient-centered patient care cannot be realized without Interoperable EHRs shared by all the stakeholders and providers OPINION – January 30, 2013 -- You will recall in my article last December, about my healthcare experience outside of Oregon, that both the ear doctor and the neurosurgeon professed to have electronic health records (EHRs).The ear doctor advised that he was using the aircraft control type headset to dictate into my medical record, by pushing the button in his ear.When I corrected him, he would re-dictate the correction. The neurosurgeon was complaining about a most popular vendor's EHR, why it did not

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  1. Hisham Rana, MD

    105.0 days ago

    Opinion: "What Interoperable EHRs Might Have Done to Improve the Patient Care Experience" by Paul DeMuro (Lund Report) http://t.co/RjSiR6jd

  2. Brian Ahier

    105.0 days ago

    RT @Cascadia Can you achieve patient centerd care without #EHR Interoperability? http://t.co/MzghdzEf ^or do patients pay w/ their own time

  3. Sherry Reynolds

    105.0 days ago

    Can you achieve patient centerd care without EHR Interoperability? http://t.co/Ppw2689v ^or do patients pay with their own time



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