EMR articles drafted but resisted posting!

I’ve seen alot of Ophthalmology EMRs over the years, helped develop some, deploy others and teach large groups of Ophthalmologists on the benefits of using an EMR. Then there are the articles that I’ve started to write but waited before posting them and ultimately just kept them as drafts forever.

Example 1: There was the one on how to deploy EMR upgrades to Providers where a developer for the biggest EMR in use in the US told me that they have each hospital decide which if any upgrades to deploy so as to not overwhelm the providers when they can’t figure out how to use their EMR anymore. Unfortunately this meant at the hospital where I worked full-time, this meant almost no new features were implemented that could have made the EMR a much better end-user experience.

Example 2: If you think your EMR is bad, check out this one! Again, not much point in slinging mud at an EMR still in use to this date but based on DOS underpinnings. This German vendor had made significant improvements to their US deployment to achieve meaningful use but in Canada, none of these features were rolled out. Meaningful use implementation or not, this EMR was a dog. Medications could not be updated, irrelevant info kept getting copied forward.

Time to wipe the slate clean and write about helpful hints instead of resisting posting nasty words. Remember there is no ideal EMR…if there were, we would all be on one EMR.