June 22nd, 2008
大部分的医生并不使用电子病历
No Comments, Popularity: 14% [?]纽约时报技术专栏6月19日转载了来自《新英格兰医疗周刊》(New England Journal of Medicine)的一份调查,这份全国性的调查采访了全美超过2,600名医生,旨在了解医生对电子病历的认识和使用程度。 调查的结论称,参与调查的大部分医生并不使用电子病历(Electronic Health Record)。 这份全国性的调查指出,尽管绝大多数的医生都认为电子病历(或者电子医疗档案)有助他们提高医疗的质量以及在合适的时间提供医疗服务,但是只有不到1/5参与调查的医生正在使用电子病历/医疗档案,其中的主要原因则是经济效益问题。
Bringing patient records into the computer age, experts say, is crucial to improving care, reducing errors and containing costs in the American health care system. The slow adoption of the technology is mainly economic.
调查指出,对经济效益的考虑,使得大部分的私人诊所(特别是小诊所)不愿意使用电子病历,而超过50个医生以上的大医院,则接受程度比较高。
调查同时也指出,在使用相对完整(fully functional)的电子病历的医生中,绝大部分的医生都指出,电子病历提高了临床诊断的质量,降低了用药错误。
82 percent of those using such electronic records said they improved the quality of clinical decisions, 86 percent said they helped in avoiding medication errors and 85 percent said they improved the delivery of preventative care
目前,包括Microsoft和Google在内的一些大型技术公司,开始提供基于web服务的,由患者控制的电子健康档案系统。 而有些考虑经济效益问题的医生则倾向于或者开始使用基于web的公共服务,而并不是采购完整的软件。
Dr. Peter Masucci, a pediatrician with his own office in Everett, Mass., embraced electronic health records to “try to get our practice into the 21st century.”
He could not afford conventional software, and chose a Web-based service from Athenahealth, a company supplying online financial and electronic health record services to doctors’ offices.
象Dr. Peter Masucci这样的医生已经逐渐接受电子病历并且爱上计算机化的技术。
“Do I see more patients because of this technology? Probably no,” Dr. Masucci said. “But I am doing a better job with the patients I am seeing. It almost forces you to be a better doctor.”
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