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Typing Skills, Age Not a Barrier

Typing skills and age of a clinician may not be barriers to computer use in medicine. Lack of computer experience or desire to use a computer might be. So says some not-so-new studies here and here. ‘…Several factors that we had predicted would be barriers to an electronic medical record, such as clinician reluctance to type or perform data entry, have not proved to be significant problems…’