Bert,
No offense taken. I realize that one of the main reasons to have an EMR is to be paperless. However, as one who lost ALL ELECTRONIC DATA when my SoapWare crashed (and my back up data was corrupted right along with it),I am still too gun-shy to fully trust my records again to any program. Until we have case-tested legal precedence, I will continue to protect myself and my patients' data. It's sort of like having a terminal patient with a Living Will on a ventilator. In my state (Indiana), the laws are still a bit too hazy for me to simply march in and pull the plug based on that one piece of paper. If there is one family member opposed to this, watch out. Also, as an old codgerette, I truly can find things more quickly flipping pages than I can clicking back and forth through screens. If I were just starting out, I suspect I would aim for a totally paperless office. Unfortunately, once again, the lawyers continue to hold physicians by the proverbial "microtrichia".

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "