With any clinic or hospital there will always be changes, I have seen
that firsthand, back in 2000 at Travis AFB, at David Grant Medical
Center, outpatient records, this is where I had worked, and they were
doing two things first they were putting the military and civilians'
medical information on the new computer chip that was being put
onto our new ID Cards, 8 bases were using this new BETA program
to see if this works so that if a military person gets hurt and they
needed the medical info about that person, just get that card and
plug it into the computer and up pops the info that you were looking
for. To this day it has been working very well.
The second thing that was being done was converting the paper
records over to EHR, and at first doctors didn't trust it, but as the
time was going to work no matter, what they said. Well, they started
to get use to this idea and noticed that they were able to see
patients than before when they had to look through a paper chart,
hello computer it worked very well and they were glad, but then they
had balked at having more codes coming out in the ICD-10, which
they didn't want that to happen when it finally came into play to be
used for all doctors and for the coders to have a better
understanding of what code was being used.
This is how changes are always going to happen no matter what it is
there will be changes and most of the time will be for the better.
