Given a computer's number-crunching abilities, a practice's demographic and epidemiological possibilities are limited only by what the physician wishes to know. In addition to using computerized patient records, yes, we do mine our data. For example, we do periodic evaluation of what diagnostic codes are most commonly seen in any given month and focus our newsletter on that topic for the month. Computerized data evaluation and manipulation can be very helpful as long as it is not threatening to physician autonomy or patient sensitivity. Wash. We want to hear from you.
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