A couple quick tweets to welcome your new week. Both tweets stand on their own and link to some good reads for those interested in the topics. The second one is particularly good since it’s John Halamka’s 2011 wrap up across all the various parts of John Halamka’s life. Let me know what you think of both reads.
Very good guidance on accounting and reporting for #EHR incentive payments bit.ly/xuX9Un
— Brian Ahier (@ahier) January 7, 2012
Healthcare CIO on 2011: #EHRs…added features for certification resulting in…lack of #usability & #workflow integration ehr.bz/lv
— Charles Webster, MD (@c_wb) January 2, 2012
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The second one strikes me as apt. We’re letting the government tell us how to develop EMRs, which just gums up the works and usability. There should be one button on all EMRs, marked “Submit MU Data”. That’s all it should take. None of this other nonsense. It typically ends up being nearly a complete waste of doctors’ time — time that could be better spent focusing on how we can help a given patient sitting in front of us right here and now. Can you imagine? You go to your doctor to discuss your medical problem and get help and they say, “Hold on a few minutes while I check some boxes off your chart for the government. Oh, sorry, we don’t have time now, so just let me run you through the system, maybe we’ll check some labs. See you back in a month to talk about you. Darn, this should be a blog!