Unfortunately one of the dangers of EMR's is overdocumentation - I remember looking at my medical records when I was a child --
Date - Temp 100.9 c/o sore throat.
Amoxicillin - tylenol.
That was it - now I have a 1 or 2 page chart for many of my little patients with Past Medical, Surgical, Social, Family History, cc, HPI, ROS, med list, full set of vitals and a BMI, physical, diagnosis with problem list and plan with scrips -- still boils down to temp 100.9, sore throat and gave amoxil, tylenol.
Remember just because we do it on computer does not make it better.....remember when computers came out and they had checkbook programs on it, my mom could still balance her checkbook and sometimes faster.
