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Das Führen elektronischer Patientenakten kann ganz schön zeitraubend sein. Zeit, die der Begegnung mit dem Patienten geraubt wird:

EMRs can slow medical charting by requiring too much information | KevinMD.com

In the end, though, I move too slowly and spend far too much time charting unnecessary (but required) layers of information. I mean, oddities aside, an otitis media chart should take about ten lines on paper, and the discharge about ten more.

I know a handwritten chart is inferior. But I wonder if the patient feels that the time spent with them is inferior?

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