For this week, I have decided to read also “Why Doctors Hate Their Computers” by Atul Gawande. The reason I have chosen to read is because in the world we live in now, we have people that are struggling with the changes towards their job aspects and having to deal with problems that are rather unfavorable to an extent. I believe this article will help me understand from a perspective in making sure the problem is clear and finding out what is the real source of it.
What I think is useful from this article is that the perspective can give a similar scenario that which people can relate to learning and end up become frustrated. So let us say that we have a task that is completely new to our workload and it turns out it is in an another language. It is true that we have just to get some help to translate them, but what if it is another language you must learn prior to that? This is the same from this article when it comes to doctors forced to work with unfriendly software.
What I think is harder from the system is the EMR being reliable with good physician input. Learning what medication to give is easy with enough practice and knowing it is. But getting the records needed is very difficult considering it is just a faxed report. The real customers for this system would be those who need of accommodations. This is because as a community, we tend to have options like sending by email instead of verbally, doing things by paper, giving checklists.
The lessons in this article not only applied to the Electronic Medical Records System but also to all technology that requires records. With the lessons, they should make sure that with whatever technology gives the records as requested instead of being just a general report as part of the system. From reading most of the article, I will say it has definitely changed my way of thinking to the medical record system in hospitals. In the past, I usually think it would be on point with learning what medicine to take and what conditions patients would have but now from this perspective, I can understand why doctors would be frustrated in the updating technology to find records needed.
What I think from this article I will disagree is the purpose of EMR being the best thing to turn to for the sake of getting records. I believe that the EMR is meant for billing instead of medical records since it does feel like it takes the amount of time in seeing the patients, which is important. It could be also medical errors that can lead to false information by the responses the patient gives when diagnosed. For this reading overall, I will say this is a good read in learning the perspective of doctors with technology. This one I believe can be difficult at first to get used to since it is from a perspective, but it provides information that relates to technology that constantly change across.
Link to the blog: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers