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To: Jim Burnham who wrote (1154)	5/17/1999 12:08:00 PM
From: george eberting	Read Replies (1) of 1530

I agree. I think it will be very hard to get doctors to adopt a new and different way of recording patient info. Think about the way an office visit typically goes today. You are ushered into an examination room. A nurse comes in, asks you some preliminary questions about your problem and makes some notes in your file. When the doctor comes in, he glances at the nurse's notes and then asks his own questions. At the conclusion of his examination and diagnosis, he writes a few more lines in your file. Often the form he has written on is also the billing form where he/she indicates the level (cost) of the examination by code number. One copy goes to the patient, one to billing, one is kept in the file along with the more detailed notes. The results of lab tests come along at some later time. I really doubt that doctors would be willing to go one step further and have the info keystroked into an internet data base. I suspect that if the info is going to be entered at all, it will have to be done by the patient. On the other hand, a new industry might arise where medical secretaries (?), for a fee, offer a service to patients wherein they will enter the info into the patient's file.

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