Summary
While the majority of hospitals have some degree of EMR, none have truly "fully functional" EMR. EMR: 1. Do not increase profit, do not increase productivity, do not save time, do not increase quality of care; 2. Do increase potential for litigations, do increase degree of control of clinicians by administration and insurance carriers, can remarkably decrease quality of care.
Analysis
If EMR system offered possibility to increase profit or productivity or save time while allowing clinicians to choose which information to share, it might have been adopted slightly faster perhaps.
The only practical tool to deliver the above is creation of a CPT codes system for using EMR.
This author consults with leading institutions through GLG
Analyses are solely the work of the authors and have not been edited or endorsed by GLG.
