On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, david derauf wrote: > My question is: who looks at all those notes anyway except the lawyers? g > A disproportionate amount of time is spent in my opinion on that aspect of > EMR, rather than on workflow.
David, I agree completely. That is why we should strive for computer-assisted medical workflow, rather than paperless medical records. The assumption may have been that we need to achieve paperless medical records first, before we can make progress on computer-assisted medical workflow. This assumption may not be valid. Certainly, the patient's "state" would still need to be described sufficiently for the enactment of the workflow to be semi-automated - but this may be quite different from a "comprehensive" EMR. Your thoughts? Best regards, Andrew --- Andrew P. Ho, M.D. OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes www.TxOutcome.Org (Hosting OIO Library #1 and OSHCA Mirror #1)
