Re: [Gnumed-devel] guidline routed diagnostic in GNUmed

[James Busser]

On Sep 19, 2006, at 3:41 PM, Richard Terry wrote:

> Office should be setup so that the patient sits side -by side with the
> doctor/desk, and patient can see the screen which the doctor is  
> accessing.

As my province embarks on electronic medical records (EMRs), we just  
had a special meeting of our College of Physicians (provincial  
regulatory body) in which we had our counterparts from the adjacent  
province talk to us about data stewardship and other "words to the  
wise". That adjacent province (Alberta) is 5-7 years into a program  
of trying to assist EMRs to get used in medical practice and the  
point made above was among those made... that patients get very  
frustrated if they see you typing stuff into a computer but cannot  
see what you are inputting... kind of calls to mind comedy parodies  
of what a (bad) interview e.g. with the psychiatrist *could* be like.

IOW the point was that the doctor should *expect* the patient to take  
an interest in what is going into the computer and to conduct  
themselves and set up the computer (which I suppose also means the  
GUI <grin>) accordingly.