The #ProjectedEHR thread I started is much bigger than Amazing Charts and all of us. I have spent a significant amount of time and energy in the twitter sphere of late because of a passion to help our profession. Nearly every throw away, blog, article, patient or doc I run into keep running with the same thread of anger, contempt, frustration, disillusionment which is demoralizing.
Very few if any talk of a solution or how to change the course we seem to be on in our profession, and that is a chasm between doc and patient with the EHR in the midst.
IMHO the EHR is part of the solution but if used in an educational therapeutic way by changing the conduit of delivery.
It is how we use the EHR at the point of care. If projected on a large TV the record becomes instructive and the documentation improves because two people are working on one thing together.
I am reminded on a daily basis, just how darn lucky I am to have AC because it not only is easy to use (for me) but it is easy to understand on a visual level when shared on a large TV with your patient.
I never realized in 21 years of internal medicine work how important the visual is for learning and teaching.
I have seen a significant improvement in the satisfaction and appreciation by my patients since employing this change in how I integrate the EHR at the visit.
So, my point, AC if projected on a large screen mirrored to whatever device you see fit, shared with the patient at the time of visit, can be part of a cultural shift or change on how the EHR is used on a daily basis. No longer part of the problem but part of the solution to help mend the chasm between the doc and his patient.
I hope this approach will not only benefit AC users, but others using different EHR's as well, but that is the unknown for me. But what I do know, AC with all its frailties in nothing short of incredible when used in this fashion.
