Many doctors are still reluctant to shake hands with technology, Email access, online scheduling, and electronic records would all make healthcare so much easier for patients. This is why some doctors are still reluctant to modernize.
Change is not for all:
The world is changing and it’s changing fast but not for all. Doctors these days, especially the ones who are more experienced, find it harder to accommodate newer technologies and newer methods of practice management in their clinics. For instance, my baby’s pediatrician who is 77 years of age finds it hard to use an app as simple as Whatsapp.(How to deal with this one!)
The only problem faced in this scenario is when a patient wants to show a specific medicine at the counter they have to buy it show it to the doctor and come back again to get it changed if it is in this case not what was recommended for the kid.
This small problem could have been easily resolved if the doctor was open enough to accept a simple technology.
The World is spinning
A few healthcare providers or doctors are so confident in working with robotics, computerised invasive surgeries etc., but when it comes to using a tab to explain a certain procedure to the patient or add simple data in the patient’s e file they are at a loss.
Most doctors ask their assistants to do this (dirty work) as most of them find it time consuming and honestly, plain old boring.
To feed or not to feed
Feeding data in the tabs is easier for new doctors who are more technologically compliant than the senior ones who learned to prescribe using paper compared to the ones who use tabs to even feed complaints and medicine.
Rise of the new world
It is next to impossible to keep track of old patients in the form of hard copies which might in case be needed for medico-legal issues. Also, with the never ending inflation, decreasing sizes of clinics where are the doctors supposed to keep all this paperwork?
Don’t you think a laptop with online backup will be easier to keep track of daily patients, accounting, prescriptions and what not!
We would love to know and understand if this is just stereotypical or doctors are more accepting this new world with a storm!
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