What you say may be true for some, but I don't mind looking stuff up in the room with a patient. Most of us try to do what's in the patient's best interests, wh

What you say may be true for some, but I don't mind looking stuff up in the room with a patient. Most of us try to do what's in the patient's best interests, which definitely includes in my case trying to refresh my highly fallible memory. However (and I'm waxing philosophical here) people don't come in to hear information from their docs as much as they come in to be heard by another human. Good docs ain't in that room with you to check off whether you had your oil changed and tires rotated, which tasks do seem like something a pad or laptop can be helpful in noting (paper does it just as well, however, and doesn't end up on the web). Data capture just isn't the big problem in all this. A major problem is developing novel, innovative and SECURE ways to track and make USE of that data for the benefit of patients.