Here’s an interesting
article http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-real-cause-of-deadly-medical-errors/
The thrust of the argument
is that bearing in mind patients may well be seen in various hospitals and
clinics, for many patients there are effectively no comprehensively detailed
medical notes. And for those patients who do have comprehensively detailed
medical notes, most doctors don’t have time to read them.
The author advocates
effectively a form of SmartNote; computer-assisted medical notes which can scan
through and spot the salient points.
He stops short of pointing
out that it is a very short step between a computer picking through the notes
to having a computer do all the stuff that medics do today.
Is this *really* the
future? I suppose that (if nothing else)
it might counteract the ambulance-chasing sue-a-medic brigade. But is this
really a good idea? I’m not sure…
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