Doctors Make Painful Switch To Electronic Records

Andy Jordan, on his cross-country American Journey in search of stimulus-related jobs and opportunities, meets a doctor in Cambridge, Ohio, who has made the painful and expensive switch from paper to electronic record-keeping

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• medical
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[figfire]

Here, let me touch your rash, with no gloves.........oh its shingles. now lets go back to my computer without washing my hands so I can put all those nast germs on my computer that will go into my next patient's room.

[meshyf]

Wow that is a pretty shitty documentary. The title of the video is very misleading.

[mmurfin87]

@karlkarlkarl1234 What? Competent doctors are excellent at understanding the complex interactions of the human body and hopefully how to repair it. They are NOT computer experts. Most doctors DO NOT have electronic records and that is in no way an indication of their competence. I pose this question to you: What IS an electronic health record?

[godscuttingyoudown]

3:15 lift your shirt up oh my, i wonder what the problem is????

[karlkarlkarl1234]

I have worked in a medical office before:

If the doctor is at all competent all patient records ARE ALREADY ALL electronic and kept by the doctor on a hard-drive and only shared with other doctors under patient permission. Most are originally hard-copy then scanned and placed in a secure encrypted electronic files so as to back them up, and this was 2 years ago.

Obama is just diverting the issue away from the true problem and that is no protection or oversight of the proposed database.

[bandminton]

It's a HUGE pain in the ass for doctors who ALREADY have thousands and thousands of patient files that have to be all inputted into computers. I had to help my parents input their patient data for 5 whole months. But I must admit it is much faster and more convenient now that its computerized.

[doctormarmalade]

Saves trees...

[junrubijr]

I totally disagree with the title of this video... Absurd to even put that title!

[simysimy9]

the only problem is transfering every patients records. If you have a few thousand patients that could take days.

[fhqwhgadz]

wow so misleading and biased... don't you think they should have cut out the end of this video where he praises the technology if the goal is to stay away from technology?

[KatieLooWho]

Funny, except that if you look, the video cuts after he does the tactile exam, so he probably washed his hands or sterilized with alcohol in between. Physicians are generally very careful about that kind of thing.