“Years ago, if you were elderly, had diabetes, high blood pressure, low back pain, needed a yearly flu shot and came to see this electronic health record-enabled physician (now with the nom de plume “Disease Management Care Blog”), you would have had your diabetes, high blood pressure and low back pain reassessed, you would have been given a flu shot and, for good measure, the DMCB would have tossed in a discussion about the unpleasantness of getting screened for cancer. After the indignity of your physical exam, the DMCB would have typed its clinic notes into the EHR. Then the DMCB would have [click!] opened a new window,[click!] and “processed” your clinic encounter by selecting a [click!] “principal diagnosis” and some [click!] “secondary diagnoses,” set a [click!] ”level of care” and then [click!] “closed” the record.”
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Jaan Sidorov, KevinMD, 30 January 2012
