Has the letter writer finally been fixed - i.e. can we now actually edit a saved letter, or do we still have to start over from scratch and redo the entire letter just to fix one typo?
No the leter writer has not changed. Unfortunately I can see where this is an issue and I do not know if any EMR's make it possible to change something easily. I know that for some time at my hospital if my dictation came out wrong I had to scratch it out - send it back, etc. to have them send me an edited copy which was a pain, but that was the way it was. Now I can look at it on our dictaphone system and use Word to edit it, but the editing is difficult and then sign.
I am not sure when and if Jon can make this change - it seems to me that making a letter be a permanent part of the medical record and thereby making it legal will be difficult with using Word or Wordpad. I do wish you could make fancy fonts add highlighting, underlining, etc but I am not sure how he will do that. Ironically my specialists send letters all the time with warnings like "Dictated with speech recognition software, so sound alike errors" and things like this. I guess I feel like once I sign I have to live with the typos or redo them.
