“Our clinic recently moved to a new charting system whnotes are no longer handwritten. Instead, doctors and therapists now type their notes into a, we are abundantly assured, very secure database. The idea is to make records more easily accessible to other providers and to help make one’s medical history more “portable.” Plus, doctors’ legendarily bad handwriting no longer need get in the way of understanding what they are actually writing. We are hardly the first institution to adopt electronic medical records, and it seems as though whatever reformed health care system eventually emerges, it is sure to require some form of electronic charting as a way to promote efficiency, save trees, and enhance portability.”
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Elias Aboujaoude, Everyday Psychology, 31 January 2010
