healthcare
When Computers Come Between Doctors and Patients
September 10, 2011 - 20:23 — qqzDr. Danielle Ofri writes about her experience with electronic medical records. MRI scans, X-ray, CT scans, and EKG are digitized, viewable by any doctor in the hospital. This facilitates hospital processes by personalizing lab results for individual doctors and reminding them to ask certain questions, as well as storing each patient's history in one easily accessible place. Doctors can keep track of their patients' records and histories without having to hunt them down, and it prevents information from being lost or misread due to bad handwriting.
