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Why electronic health records are failing patients: the dark side of copy and paste

The Podcast by KevinMD

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The Evolution of Clinical Documentation

In the olden days, when we had it in paper, you couldn't read it, but it actually told the story. In 2011, the government offered money to the hospitals to implement an electronic medical record. And so they implemented medical records that were electronic. So people started just clicking on boxes and instead of having it tell a cogent story, it was sort of more haphazard. The fact that the United States happens to use it for reimbursement is really just, it's really just the problem.

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