Chart chasing sounds like a terrible game.
“The fax machine still exists, but only in healthcare,” said Dr. Kaushal Kulkarni, a neuro-ophthalmologist. “Someone goes out and retrieves records from the hospital basement and proceeds to put 1,000 pages—basically fax records—on my desk. ‘Here you go, doctor. Have fun.’ And now it’s my job, in the middle of a busy clinic where patients are already waiting half an hour or more, to flip through 1,000 pages and try to figure out what’s going on with the person in front of me who needs help.”
