I have 30 years as a practicing physician. EHR’s are a disaster. They don’t communicate with each other. Medicare waste could be vastly reduced if one Electronic Health Record (EHR) was used universally across the country. It would eliminate the need for repeat lab testing and repeat scans by providing providers with a patient’s entire medical history. Less malpractice. Together with reducing the cost of prescription drugs, this would save the government billions.
We currently order at least 1 repeat scan per specialty because we can’t get results or we don’t know who or when previous scans were ordered. We duplicate pharmacy orders. All providers, pharmacists, PA’s, NP’s hospitals should be able to access the same EHR. Obama destroyed medicine when he allowed for profit EHR systems to sell their isolated software. THEY DON’T COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER!