defining EMR
Posted By: EmmaMT on 2009-01-27
In Reply to: Question to ponder..... - instructor
As someone stated, the electronic medical record is the record stored by electronic medium and able to be accessed by all involved healthcare providers. Truly streamlining this will improve pay-4-performance, patient followup, and insurance. IMO, this is all tied to Obama's healthcare plan.
Too many MTs freak out at hearing electronic medical record because it's viewed as something bad. What it is is global. Like that or not. Wanting to have 100% EMR doesn't at all address HOW that record is entered as data.
Voice recognition is making great strides and in many instances is very smart. Still needs the human touch for QA and likely will for a significant period of time to come.
Point and click programs- many dr offices are using these. Yes, they hate them. Yes they bitch about them. But yes they still are able to create the necessary records. Canned text works for some things and face it, dollar-wise it should. If you go see your doc for otitis media, is it truly necessary to incur the cost of an MT to say- Ear infection, prescribed amoxicillin?
The checks and balances in place in healthcare don't allow copy-cat texts. I'm a dictator on one of my jobs. Even though the discharge summary for most of my clients is the same, I have to make sure it is PERSONALIZED. Accreditating bodies look at that kind of stuff.
Scribes are also coming back into the picture- following the doc around with each patient and inputting the record so by the time the patient leaves the office, their report, prescriptions, x-rays are all on their record and/or ordered.
All of these things utilize humans. MTs are still going to be a hot commodity for those who make the technology work for them. For those who are afraid and do little more than bad mouth the methods rather than acquaint themselves with them will find they are struggling to be employed or getting the scraps that technology has yet to find a solution for.
I would challenge your students to be creative. To THINK the big picture (what the record access means to healthcare overall). Highly trained, well rounded MTs will still have jobs for some time to come.
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