Recently I came across an article which dissuades physicians from using templates for encounter documentation in Electronic Health Records. The article claims that templates are not beneficial to the physicians and are bad medicine for the patients and further goes on to state that templates are legally dangerous and templates allow third party payers an exclusive opportunity to manage the physician’s practice.
I think templates do have a place in Electronic Health Records software that allows for flexible template design. Using such software, properly created templates can save time for the physician. Checklists can be used to follow up patients such as chronic disease patients, thus ensuring that all salient follow up elements are considered.
Interested in knowing your views/comments. Thanks.
V. J. Kulkarni, MD, MHSC
I think templates do have a place in Electronic Health Records software that allows for flexible template design. Using such software, properly created templates can save time for the physician. Checklists can be used to follow up patients such as chronic disease patients, thus ensuring that all salient follow up elements are considered.
Interested in knowing your views/comments. Thanks.
V. J. Kulkarni, MD, MHSC
No comments:
Post a Comment