Advice to Physicians: Prepare to meet “meaningful use” EMR requirement
Pamela Lewis Dolan, of American Medical News, reporting June 15, 2009 on the experts’ answer to whether physicians should wait until all the rules have been clarified. The experts told her “Don’t wait to buy or upgrade just for want of a definition. There are enough clues in the legislation to estimate the definition of ‘meaningful use.’”  http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2009/06/15/bica0615.htm

Scenario: How do you keep the patient at the center of the medical interview?
On the American Medical News site on June 8, 2009, Frederic W. Platt, MD, answered the question: “Given the high-tech trend in patient encounters, how do you conduct the medical interview in a way that does not interfere with the patient relationship?” Dr. Platt is clinical professor of medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, School of Medicine, and regional consultant for the Institute for Healthcare Communication. The post is part of AMedNews.com’s Ethics Forum.
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2009/06/08/prca0608.htm
Dr. Platt’s quide to the essence of physician-patient communications:
Field Guide to the Difficult Patient Interview, 2nd Edition. Co-authored with Geoffrey H. Gordon.