“If a physician can be replaced by a computer, then he or she deserves to be replaced by a computer.” I recently went to a talk given by Dr. Warner Slack, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Co-President of the Center for Clinical Computing. During his talk on the cybermedicine and the […]
Physicians and Technology
I get to class and look over my lecture slides for the day. Aside from the content, it’s the same as usual – outdated fonts, unorganized layout, blurry images. I look up, and the professor is struggling to hook up his computer to the projector, again. I sigh and consider the same question I have […]
EHRing
Throughout my medical school career, I have encountered various electronic health record (EHR) systems. From the era of having paper charts, and writing orders and notes in by hand, we have come a long way, where literally everything in a patient’s chart is virtually electronic. Some clinics do not have even paper charts anymore. In […]
