Pelzman's Picks: The Problem With EHRs

• "The electronic patient records that the federal government has been pushing -- in an effort to coordinate healthcare and reduce mistakes -- come with a host of bells and whistles that may be doing the opposite in some cases," Shefali Luthra writes in The Washington Post ~ Doctors are overloaded with electronic alerts, and that's bad for patients
• Do we need transparency laws to rein in medication costs? Ameet Sarpatwari, JD, PhD, and colleagues ask in New England Journal of Medicine ~ State Initiatives to Control Medication Costs -- Can Transparency Legislation Help?

• The healthcare community needs to address and promote "transgender health needs," Mark A. Schuster, MD, and colleagues write in NEJM ~ Beyond Bathrooms -- Meeting the Health Needs of Transgender People

• Can a team approach reduce missed or delayed diagnoses? David E. Newman-Toker asks in The Health Care Blog ~ The Team Sport of Diagnosis: A Culture Shift Can Reduce Missed Diagnoses

• The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has unveiled its screening recommendations for colorectal cancer in JAMA ~ Screening for Colorectal Cancer. And here's a related editorial.

• Reed Abelson explores the limitations of online tools that help patients pick their doctors in The New York Times ~ Online Tools to Shop for Doctors Snag on Health Care's Complexity
• Some patients are trying to treat their medical conditions by infecting themselves with parasites, Moises Velasquez-Manoff writes in The New York Times ~ The Parasite Underground
• How can doctors improve physical exams? William G. Nelson, MD, PhD, and colleagues discuss strategies in JAMA ~ Reengineering the Physical Examination for the New Millennium?
• Zuzanna Czernik, MD, and C. T. Lin, MD, wonder whether they spend too much time at their computers in JAMA ~ Time at the Bedside (Computing)

Fred N. Pelzman, MD, of Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Associates and weekly blogger for MedPage Today, follows what's going on in the world of primary care medicine. Pelzman's Picks is a compilation of links to blogs, articles, tweets, journal studies, opinion pieces, and news briefs related to primary care that caught his eye.

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Pelzman's Picks: The Problem With EHRs