title: A "KISS" EMR may be all you need.
abstract: The Obama Administration has continued where the previous one left off in advocating the widespread adoption of electronic (digital) medical records (EMRs). But an expensive EMR system loaded with bells and whistles that you don't really need, and requiring doctors to interact with computers, can cost you in terms of patient-care time as well as money. The Big Three (which can encompass dictation/transcription), drug prescribing, and lab test ordering/results. An inexpensive "KISS" (Keep It Simple, Stupid) EMR containing these basic elements, and not requiring disruptive changes in office routines, may be all you really need.
authors.affiliation: Resource Providers, Inc., 4511 N. Himes Avenue, Tampa, FL 33614, USA. allenclifford@rpiusa.com
authors.forename: W Allen
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Clifford
mesh_terms: D016494:Computer Security; D003219:Confidentiality; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D014481:United States