Thoughts On Creating EHRs That Clinicians Are Actually Reasonably Happy To Use And Don ’t Burn Them Out.

We had two relevant articles (and an extra) appear this week. First we had:Physicians dream up a better EHR May 22, 2017By Mary K. Pratt When the American Medical Association (AMA) last year announced study results that found physicians spend nearly half their office day entering data into electronic health records (EHRs) and handling other administrative deskwork, the organization said poorly designed EHRs were part of the problem. “If you were to start from scratch, you wouldn’t come up with the systems we have today,” said Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, an associate professor of anesthesiology, surgery, biomedical informatics and health policy at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine who was elected to the American Me dical Association Board of Trustees in 2014.The AMA developed a list of eight items it believes vendors need to improve or develop to make EHRs better for physicians and their staff.The list starts by saying systems should1.     enhance physicians ’... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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