How do you pick a Dr.?

[disneysteve]

Disneysteve,
I was thinking rather than having to dig through pages and pages and pages of medical records

Sure they would except instead of paper pages they are "electronic" pages.

My experience with EMR systems thus far has not been positive. When I refer a patient to a specialist, I used to get a simple report, less than one page most of the time, summarizing the findings and recommendations in a paragraph or two. Now, those offices are using EMR and I get a 4-page report that is 98% form letter and 2% useful information buried in their somewhere. It takes me forever to find the parts that are actually important. Sometimes, I read the whole report and still don't really know what the doctor thought or what he is recommending.

Since there are dozens of different EMR systems out there, and none are compatible with each other, any data and reports imported from one to another is just done by scanning in the report to view on the computer. All of the papers are still there - just in digitized form.