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Doctor here - honestly, a paper record works great generally. The really useful low hanging fruit of EHR is an electronic portal for radiology results, blood r
by tuberelay 8y ago
Doctor here - honestly, a paper record works great generally.
The really useful low hanging fruit of EHR is an electronic portal for radiology results, blood results, discharge summaries and letters. If you have a way to link family doctor/pharmacy prescriptions with hospitals, thats great too.
My ideal health IT system assuming perfect AI and everything else would be:
- Automatic recording of everything discussed and done
between nurses/doctors with no input from the doctor and producing a record which reads in a sensible way
- Automatic prompting for things the doctor/nurse was likely missed or should discuss during a consult (but only to a sensible level of detail)
- Automatic checking for common ommissions, or things that are being done that perhaps shouldn't be, so a patient who has a microcytic anaemia triggers a check to ask a doctor "do you want to order iron studies on this patient?"
- tabtab 8y agoSomewhere there must be a Rule of Automation saying, "Paper and pen/pencil is better than a bad system."
- hackerDoc 8y agoThat's the system we're building. We've been at it for over three years. Not long before we leave stealth mode and switch from R&D to commercialization. We're internally-funded, which means we don't answer to investors, we don't have to live in SV, SFO or NYC, we don't have to hire people the VC firms like/trust (we have senior executive experience at multi-nationals), and, most importantly, we can focus strictly on what's best for our colleagues and our patients.