Expert perspective demonstrates the necessity of structured medical records and computers in clinical practice, highlighting pathways to reduce physician workflow frustration.
THE beginning clinical clerk, the house officer and the practicing physician are all confronted with conditions that are frustrating in every phase of medical action. The purpose of this article is to identify and discuss these conditions and point out solutions. To deal effectively with these frustrations it will be necessary to develop a more organized approach to the medical record, a more rational acceptance and use of paramedical personnel and a more positive attitude about the computer in medicine. Eventually, for every physician all three areas will be an obligatory part of his professional environment if he is to . . .
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Lawrence L. Weed (1968) studied this question.
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