When I moved clinics this year, I also had to switch the EMR (chart software) that I was using. The companies initially promised that they could transfer the files for me, which turned out to be wrong. Since then, I’ve had to spend months manually entering the charts of nearly 1000 patients – every medication, every condition, their last blood pressure… I’ve lost count of how many hours I’ve spent on it, and it doesn’t even include previous visit notes. It’s been embarrassing for patients to ask about a prior conversation ftom last year and I have no notes to remind me. It’s fragmenting the care they’re getting, not only between my family medicine practice and specialists, but within my own clinic too.