Hi Lara,
I think you just hijacked a thread! OTOH, I’ve yet to meet someone who can stop Ruth in flight… waiting to see the thread stolen back.
You’re absolutely correct, with the proviso that we are still sacrificing trees to our patients so we haven’t reached where we need to get to yet.
Part of the issue is how easy it is to get clinicians doing their own coding, billing, and miscellaneous administration when you move to an electronic system, and the US systems have been designed by the people who have a focus on this, so they add tasks to the clinicians that traditionally weren’t part of the job. One of the easiest way to get disgruntled employees is to hire them for one job (seeing patients) and make them do another(medical billing). I get the distinct impression that the US systems are very close to “the click that broke the users’ back” so to speak, and we haven’t gone down that track here - Yet.