Medical Technology is Making Humanism a Lost Art
Jan 31, 2012Article by Lynn Berry, PT, CPC
In the Coding Edge article, Medical Technology is Making Humanism a Lost Art – New Health care regulations may help bring humanity back to medicine, Lynn Berry, PT, CPC describes new federal rules and regulations including the HCAHPS survey questions, the new rules for ACOs, and the new Value-Based Modifier (all of which contain measures of the patient experience) which are now recognized as key elements of successful patient treatment. As the science of medicine has increased technologically, we seem to have lost our ability to make both physical and emotional contact with our patients. We strive dutifully to use electronic records to document while examining the patient, use telephonic medicine to download needed information, print out diets and exercise programs to hand to the patient, make isolated decisions, and utilize other technology to speak or write to the patient instead of using palpation and other physical examination techniques and connecting with the patient to discuss their treatment face to face. Perhaps these rules will spur us to again practice hands on medicine that is at once more rewarding to us as practitioners and also provides the patient with an overall experience satisfying to them.
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