Why Doctors Hate Electronic Medical Records

By Dr. Bill Cast, Used Courtesy Of Shahid N. Shah, The Healthcare IT Guy

Most of us in the healthcare IT believe the ARRA (stimulus) bill is a Good Thing for the industry in general. Many existing companies will be able to sell more products and many new companies will be formed to create electronic medical records solutions. I was talking to Dr. Bill Cast last week about EMRs and what he and other physicians thought about them in general and I got some great feedback. Dr. Cast is a practicing Otolaryngologist, and is a past member of the AAO Board of Directors and AMA Delegate from Otolaryngology. He has been a lobbyist for the Indiana Malpractice Law and founding Chairman of Dupont Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a managing partner of his medical practice, and President of several multispecialty ambulatory surgical centers. He was editor of Medical Business Review, an economics newsletter for physicians. He is currently CEO of www.nomoreclipboard.com, a personal health records company. I invited him to share his thoughts about why physicians aren't in love with EMRs which should form some good input for companies looking for ways of improving their own solutions. Here's what he had to say.