the problem with EMR is that it fosters copy-paste. you read the same misinformation over and over. If copy-paste is disabled, content will degenerate to fictio

the problem with EMR is that it fosters copy-paste. you read the same misinformation over and over. If copy-paste is disabled, content will degenerate to fiction. in our data driven medical system, human narrative has lost value, just as the physical examination is the equivalent of judging a book by its cover. Today we rely on invasive and computationally intensive tests to tell us what's going on. Ultimately i see AI as offering a 'tree of choices' at each step in the diagnostic and therapeutic decision tree where we doctors only need to click on the most right (least wrong?) choice as we pare the tree to the situation at hand. Drug recommender systems are the crude first step i see being implemented. but these are choices made in isolation without integrating the numerous other data points available for a particular patient. currently, the health care industry is the largest employer in many towns. the social disruption by further 'unemploying' these people will convert gainfully employed individuals into the depressed patients of the institutions they used to serve. so some wisdom is needed here to temper the zeal of our blind pursuit of the electronic medical record.