Electronic health records have made life a lot easier forhospice physician Kate Christenson. But more importantly, they havegiven her more time with her patients.
As a physician working with end-of-life patients,Christenson frequently needs to examine her clients'extensive medical histories. “If I had to be thumbing through athick-thick chart to look back on their records over the years, itwould take all day,” the Kaiser Permanente doctor who also acts asmedical director for the carrier's internet services group,says.
With an EHR, she also can send notes to her patients' primarycare doctors quickly and frequently, with patient recordsattached.
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