For a long time, family physician Mary Jo Welker, MD, hated computers.
Computers are here to stay.
As a residency faculty member of Rardin Family Practice Center at Ohio State University, Columbus, Dr. Welker can retrieve many records in the OSU hospital system. Physicians should hire consultants as guides in computerizing their offices and training their staffs, Dr. Welker suggests. We need help making decisions about computerizing. It's hard enough to know how to practice medicine, let alone how to do all this computer stuff. You may be one of about 24 percent of AAFP active members whose offices are not computerized, even for billing.