Do Doctors Need To Use Computers? One Physician's Case Highlights The Quandary
Now in her 80s, Anna Konopka has been practicing medicine for decades and has never used electronic records. After record-keeping complaints, she surrendered her license. The case wound up in court.
by Colin Dwyer
Nov 28, 2017
3 minutes
Do you need computer skills to be a competent doctor?
That's one of the central questions surrounding a difficult case unfolding in New Hampshire this month: Anna Konopka, an octogenarian doctor who eschews computers and has been practicing medicine for the better part of six decades, surrendered her license under a September agreement with the state's board of medicine — partly because of multiple complaints related to her record keeping, Merrimack Superior Court Judge John Kissinger said.
But Konopka
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