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The majority of my EHR experience
has been in the hospital setting.
There's been a little bit in private practice as well,
outpatient clinics.
I've seen nine different systems, in various stages
of implementation and integration.
My personal experience has been that it's improved my learning
because I have access to more information more quickly.
It's easier to find than flipping through a paper chart.
I grew up on computers
and so it's a more familiar system for me.
It's also easier to understand what other people have put
in the patients' charts, you know, as opposed to trying
to interpret the handwriting of other folks, so.
It's generally been a very positive experience for me,
as a student, learning on EHRs.
I do think that we have a distinct advantage
over those that don't have any EHR training,
the reason being that the world operates in technology now
and it's not going to change, it's only going to refine
and continue to progress in that path
and so you kind of can only fight it for so long.
And the fact is, I may not be as great of a clinician,
as this point in my training, but, if I understand
the broader scope of how practices manage and run now,
it's going to help, it's going to put me
at that distinct advantage, in terms of
accessing information that I need,
sending information I need to send,
billing in the modern system, and maximizing
my income potential, and things like that,
so I think it does give me that distinct advantage.
I did eight weeks of rotations
in a little town called Lake City, Colorado, which is
a phenomenal little clinic in a beautiful little town
that's an hour and a half from the nearest hospital.
And they have an EHR they set up
and they also have electronic access and secure access
into that hospital's record system as well,
especially into their radiology system,
because they have to send a lot of folks up there for radiology.
And the fact is, they're able to communicate so fluidly
between those two programs,
between the clinic and the hospital.
You know, we will get our CT scan readings back
before the patient actually makes it back to town
from getting the CT scan, you know.
I remember seeing a patient that, we sent them up,
they came back, we had already examined the reports
before they got back and came in to the clinic,
and were able to talk to them about it.
So that's a phenomenal example of how technology
can really benefit in the transfer
of information, and things like that, so.
In the rural setting, I can't imagine being without it.