A new electronic record-keeping system could eliminate the rows of manila folders with patient records in Dr. Harvey Benovitz’s office on the Upper West Side.
For Dr. Harvey Benovitz, who graduated from medical school in 1962, it is as profound a shift in the way he treats patients as advances in diabetes drugs.
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Instead of jotting down notes on charts and filling out prescriptions in his small, meticulous handwriting, Dr. Benovitz, whose patients have always thought of him as a reassuringly old-fashioned internist, tapped a patient’s blood pressure and other vitals into a laptop next to the examining table during a checkup the other day.
Not only will this new electronic record-keeping system eliminate the rows upon rows of bursting manila folders stuffed into what could be another examination room in the back of Dr. Benovitz’s cramped office on the Upper West Side. It allows him to compare the patient’s blood pressure management with all his other patients’ — and with those in hundreds of private medical practices across New York City. Read more..
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