>> Older docs will retire in droves.
Sure, but most will adapt -- and I can tell you, once they do, they'll be much happier people.
One larger oncology clinic, a customer of ours for 15 years, in the last two years spent a half million dollars for new systems -- billing and EMR, complete with support for clinical trials, etc. It is way cool. I never would have believed the oldest of those docs would have adjusted to it, but now, he thrives on it and wouldn't be without it. Not an "older" doc -- only in his early 50s -- but still, way predated these kinds of systems.
USA EMR systems are apt to be quite a bit more complex than EMR systems in other parts of the world -- just because of our regulatory, malpractice, and medical privacy environments, if for no other reasons. Which is one reason we don't have widespread use of them yet -- but eventually, five years from now, pretty much every one will have to be on EMR. |
