Louisville, KY
Greg is a retired neurologist in Louisville, Kentucky, with a long-standing interest in computers and programming, beginning with Fortran IV in the 1960s. When Linux and open source software came along, it kindled a commitment to learning more, and eventually contributing. He is a member of the Scribus Team.
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An awful proprietary EMR was largely why I retired when I did. I had planned to wait a few more years, but could no longer stand the way the the EMR worked.
What you had to deal with was a largely manual operation in the way of searching for every single bit of information. There was no way to set up automatic searches for new results each day on each patient. You couldn't do any kind of automated search for data. For example, if I wanted to see if a patient had already had a B12 level done, I was manually searching screen after screen. On top of all of this, the system allowed you to copy and paste to your progress notes -- consequently many would copy and X-ray and other reports to their notes -- you had to struggle to find the part of the note that was actually written by the doctor whose note it was.
One of my favorite ways to use the terminal in searching files is to use grep to either find specific information in a file, or sometimes make sure that the file I need to open is the correct one. With a large file it may take some time to find what you need by simply opening the file with kate or even using less to display the contents.