FP Net allows AAFP members to gain advice about electronic medical records and other computer technology. Your question and the answer will be posted later so your colleagues can also benefit from the advice. If you have an answer to a question or solution to a problem that you see on the bulletin board, you can post a response as well. The site also features articles, software and hardware vendor listings and computerization conferences. Fam-Med is geared toward the use of information technology in family medicine.
Members can post inquiries or browse through old postings.
The list averages 10 to 20 messages a week, but members can subscribe to a digest form. Structured data entry. Clinicians who feel strongly about maintaining their own documentation style may feel constricted by this process. However, the more they deviate from the structure, the more difficult it is to capture and reliably analyze clinical performance. Choosing an EMR that allows you to customize the lists of clinical descriptors will help ease the transition to structured data entry.