NEW ORLEANS — Ongoing training, tweaking the technology to what benefits you, and discussing needed changes with information technology departments can help primary care physicians and internists recognize the full potential of the electronic medical record, according to a presenter at the American College of Physicians Internal Medicine Meeting.

“The EMR is our primary tool of providing care to patients, it’s also our cockpit, our dashboard,” Kendall M. Rogers, MD, CPE, FACP, SFHM, professor and chief, division of hospital medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center told Healio Family Medicine.