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To the Editor: In his Editorial, Dr Hsia¹ briefly mentioned the need for computerized medical records. As a clinician I take issue with any study that presumes to evaluate the care I may give patients in the hospital or in my office. Such data are mostly collected through the administrative side of the chart and the data are wrong more often than they are correct. A clinically driven electronic medical record would be much more accurate to effectively monitor both physicians and patients.

It is very frustrating to be forced to send data to the government or whatever watchdog agency, knowing that it will be misused and misinterpreted. I recently received a demand for a patient record from such an agency in order to evaluate the care of a new patient. However, I am still waiting for the patient's old record in order to fashion his care more completely. Will . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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