Wasnt personally attacking you so “read for comprehension”. I was merely suggesting you help solve the problem and not continue down the path of suggesting going back to the same broken methods used in the 60s. I do use that mentality to write code (clinically useful and safe). Again you didnt read. If your point is to come on here and attack all EMRs as “the devil” your point has been made … its just an irrational, invalid and useless point. As a consumer of healthcare I would like to know our physicians (or at least the good ones) also would like it to be safer than it was before EMRs. Have you read “To Err is Human”? It seems like it was an unsafe environment for those 98000 people a year.

Brad, save the personal attacks and learn to read for comprehension. If you’re writing EMR software with that mentality, no wonder it’s problematic. Thanks for unintentionally proving my point.

Wow lots of blame and no suggestion on any fixes … way to show professionalism. Im an RN and Software Engineer and I fight every day to make sure what I write and what goes into our solution is clinically useful and safe. Some people are just resistant to change and electronically creating orders may not be pen and ‘chicken scratch’ like you like but its much safer. Ill continue striving to improve the quality of our solution and get you back to your patients faster, if you will try to stop preaching doom and gloom and be a team player. CP “hit the nail on the head”, except it not being either sides responsibility. I try to keep one foot on both sides of the fence to make sure I know the WHY in what Im writing. I wish some of the others did this as it would prevent this disconnection that I agree is there.

Doctor as a Healthcare IT person I think that everyone, including you, needs to be included in any beginning process and have that involvement occur until the system is superseded. There is so much in the way of upper-level IS and cliques socking it to the doctors and staff who use them all the way down to the little guy who gets the call at the help desk. Don’t some hospitals do it better? I like EMR and CPOE; it’s just that firms don’t always have the touch when writing the software and facilities screw up the purchase, implementation, and support. We underlings can only call the people assigned to the apps and listen as we try and present ourselves as sympathetic and knowledgeable when a doctor speaks unto us- and sometimes not gently.

That pesky line under the masthead declaring this the finest site for satirical medical news just seems to go over most people’s heads.

I baffles me that people seriously even think this website is anything but satire. This is “The Onion” of medical news.