I feel the EMR pain everyday (“why is my MCV low, aren’t you going to fix my mild tricuspid valve regurgitation when you replace my aortic valve?”, “why is there atelectasis and scarring in my lung?”) but I side with you. Transparency is always best. But it is important that the providers get comfortable with the expression “I don’t know…
I feel the EMR pain everyday (“why is my MCV low, aren’t you going to fix my mild tricuspid valve regurgitation when you replace my aortic valve?”, “why is there atelectasis and scarring in my lung?”) but I side with you. Transparency is always best. But it is important that the providers get comfortable with the expression “I don’t know, but there is no reason to think it is a problem”. Because that is an uncomfortable truth about 95% of test results we get.
So transparency results in a nice feedback loop, as you indicate. But your feedback loop argument falls short when it comes to radiology reports. Those blasted radiologists rarely if ever talk to the patients!!!!
I feel the EMR pain everyday (“why is my MCV low, aren’t you going to fix my mild tricuspid valve regurgitation when you replace my aortic valve?”, “why is there atelectasis and scarring in my lung?”) but I side with you. Transparency is always best. But it is important that the providers get comfortable with the expression “I don’t know, but there is no reason to think it is a problem”. Because that is an uncomfortable truth about 95% of test results we get.
So transparency results in a nice feedback loop, as you indicate. But your feedback loop argument falls short when it comes to radiology reports. Those blasted radiologists rarely if ever talk to the patients!!!!