BC Advantage - 2016 Issue 6

Electronic Medical Records: Is Your EMR Making You Look Like a Bad Doctor?

"As of the end of 2015, 56 percent of all U.S. office-based physicians (MD/DO) have demonstrated meaningful use of certified health IT in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs." [1] More than half of the physicians in practice in the United States currently use some form of electronic health record to document and store their patients' medical records. While controversy still exists pertaining to the effectiveness and value of electronic medical records, there is no denying the fundamental shift in clinical documentation practices to an electronic format. There are...

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