Strategizing EHR use to achieve patient-centered care in exam rooms: a qualitative study on primary care providers

Conclusion This study has uncovered the challenges that primary care providers face in integrating the EHR into their work practice, and the strategies they use to overcome these challenges in order to maintain patient-centered care. These findings illuminate the importance of developing "best" practices to improve patient-centered care in today’s highly "wired" health environment. These findings also show that more user-centered EHR design is needed to improve system usability.

Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - November 13, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Zhang, J., Chen, Y., Ashfaq, S., Bell, K., Calvitti, A., Farber, N. J., Gabuzda, M. T., Gray, B., Liu, L., Rick, S., Street, R. L., Zheng, K., Zuest, D., Agha, Z. Tags: Research and Applications Source Type: research