ehealth and the local GP

Practitioners know that digitising health records has the potential not only to improve patient outcomes, but to save lives.

What implications are there for the GP that works in a small team? Critical decision making by the GP will be on record for other health providers to assess. This can only serve to better patient outcomes, but will put the GP under more pressure to improve decision making.

This may only add to their reluctance to participate in ehealth schemes  as they know that they will also be burdened with the large cost of implementing the required hardware and software to make the practice ehealth compliant.

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