Electronic health records have made life a lot easier for hospice physician Kate Christenson. But more importantly, they have given her more time with her patients.
As a physician working with end-of-life patients, Christenson frequently needs to examine her clients' extensive medical histories. "If I had to be thumbing through a thick-thick chart to look back on their records over the years, it would take all day," the Kaiser Permanente doctor who also acts as medical director for the carrier's internet services group says.
With an EHR, she can also send notes to her patients' primary care doctors quickly and frequently, with patient records attached.
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