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From: | James Busser |
Subject: | Re: [Gnumed-devel] guidline routed diagnostic in GNUmed |
Date: | Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:11:28 -0700 |
On Sep 19, 2006, at 3:41 PM, Richard Terry wrote:
Office should be setup so that the patient sits side -by side with thedoctor/desk, and patient can see the screen which the doctor is accessing.
As my province embarks on electronic medical records (EMRs), we just had a special meeting of our College of Physicians (provincial regulatory body) in which we had our counterparts from the adjacent province talk to us about data stewardship and other "words to the wise". That adjacent province (Alberta) is 5-7 years into a program of trying to assist EMRs to get used in medical practice and the point made above was among those made... that patients get very frustrated if they see you typing stuff into a computer but cannot see what you are inputting... kind of calls to mind comedy parodies of what a (bad) interview e.g. with the psychiatrist *could* be like.
IOW the point was that the doctor should *expect* the patient to take an interest in what is going into the computer and to conduct themselves and set up the computer (which I suppose also means the GUI <grin>) accordingly.
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