A little background is called for to give this post a little perspective. I'm an ophthalmologist that likes to listen to computer and Mac podcasts. What pays the bills is my 20 year long career in medicine. But involvement with computers is a close second for consumption of my time. I've sat on committees at 500+ bed hospitals to evaluate software, my own practice has been 99% paperless with EMR for 10 years now and I manage
EMR is an anacroym for (E)lectronic (M)edical (R)ecords. EMR can actually cover quite a range of items. EMR can be an electronic wrist band containing a person's vital medical data. It can also be the complete set of "notes" your doctor records during your visit entered into a database during your visit. Taking paper records and scanning them into a electronic version is a form of EMR.
A little background is called for to give this post a little perspective. I'm an ophthalmologist that likes to listen to computer and Mac podcasts. What pays the bills is my 20 year long career in medicine. But involvement with computers is a close second for consumption of my time. I've sat on committees at 500+ bed hospitals to evaluate software, my own practice has been 99% paperless with EMR for 10 years now and I manage