Executive Briefings | January 23, 2017
We Don’t Have An EHR & We Won’t Do Email
On my recent travels, I had a glass of wine with a 50-ish family physician from the Midwest. We talked about the trends in the health care field in general and about primary care in particular. Of course, I mentioned all the opportunities in primary care management of medical homes, the use of electronic health record (EHR) data to coordinate consumer care, and the evolution of care delivery to an on-demand model using technology.
Much to my surprise, he said, “Our practice and our 12 physicians do not have an electronic medical record – and we don’t plan . . .