Word: instantness
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American doctors have not been enemies of the digital revolution. Looking up lab results and x-rays on our computer screens beat out carbon copies and sheet film in an instant. We like e-mail; we shop, take tests and read our journals on line. But the romance, for most of us, began to sour with Computerized Physician Order Entry [CPOE]: entering patients' hospital orders on the computer. This is when we first confronted the downside to uploading our every medical judgment...
...hard to see how a digital chart is a ticket to increased revenues. Instant communication from the health information side - with all the tests, diagnoses and treatments - to the billing side that pays for it all, makes billing faster and easier. Why give away that Ace bandage for free? This at least is efficient. But communication the other way, from billing to medical, will take place too. And this is more ominous. The doctor should tell the biller what he found and did. But that EMR program can easily be a very clever, covert way for the biller to tell...
...Both healthy and effective, Perlman returned to Harvard last fall. A year of separation dissolved in what seemed like an instant...
...When he began to speak there was an instant rapport there, with not just the students, but faculty and staff,” Adams said...
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