http://blog.sermo.com/2014/10/03/ehr-glitch-for-ebola-patient-over-100-possible-contacts-as-family-ordered-to-stay-home/ Talk Real World Medicine Mon, 23 Mar 2015 13:00:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 http://blog.sermo.com/2014/10/03/ehr-glitch-for-ebola-patient-over-100-possible-contacts-as-family-ordered-to-stay-home/#comment-275 Fri, 03 Oct 2014 17:22:53 +0000 http://blog.sermo.com/?p=2051#comment-275 Do we know if the patient even saw a physician? It’s entirely possible in this day of ACA and cost-cutting that he was triaged to a mid-level practitioner.

]]> http://blog.sermo.com/2014/10/03/ehr-glitch-for-ebola-patient-over-100-possible-contacts-as-family-ordered-to-stay-home/#comment-274 Fri, 03 Oct 2014 15:46:30 +0000 http://blog.sermo.com/?p=2051#comment-274 The glitch is the EMR. Since moving to CPOE and computer documentation in the ED, there is less verbal communication. Everyone is plugged in front of a computer typing furiously the vase majority of their shift. Doctors and nurses do not talk to each other as frequently. “Its in the computer.”

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