Is A Computer Actually Necessary to Practice Medicine or Just for Filling Out Government Forms?

The problem appears as more bureaucratic than professional. m/r

Doctor who refuses to use computers loses medical license

By: MICHAEL CASEY, Associated Press  Updated: Nov 10 2017 

NEW LONDON, N.H. (AP) - Holding manila folders filled with pages of her handwritten reports, Dr. Anna Konopka insisted her system for keeping track of her patients' medical conditions and various prescriptions works fine.
But the New Hampshire Board of Medicine disagrees. It is challenging the 84-year-old New London physician's record keeping, prescribing practices and medical decision making.

Part of their concern is her remedial computer skills, which prevent her from accessing and using the state's mandatory electronic drug monitoring program. The program, which the state signed onto in 2014, requires prescribers of opioids to register in an effort reduce overdoses.
Konopka surrendered her license last month and went to court Friday in an effort to regain it.

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