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Article: Out with the clipboard, in with the computer.(Practice Trends)
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- Internal Medicine News
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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Dr. Rich Gremillion had a problem: His practice was spending so much time on patient data entry that patient education was being shortchanged.
"Over half of my time as a physician was being spent with data input. Patients were routinely presenting at appointments without historical intake forms being completed, and the front office staff was spending 10-15 minutes per patient completing and transferring personal and insurance data into our network," said Dr. Gremillion, who is in practice in Sandy, Utah.
So he decided to update his three-physician practice by replacing the traditional intake form with an electronic form.
It seemed reasonable to ...