A Few Ideas Are Starting To Emerge To Assist With EHR Frustrations. A Good Thing.

This appeared a few days ago:Why doctors hate electronic records — and what could change thatBy Dominic Fracassa June 12, 2017 Updated: June 12, 2017 3:19pm The health care industrial complex has spent billions of dollars and untold amounts of time trying to make medical records as flexible, invisible and unobtrusive as possible for patients and clinicians al ike. The results will be well worth the expense, the thinking goes, if the records — tracking patients in the vast and complicated health care system — could help clinicians spend more time caring for people and less on paperwork. But after nearly two decades of concerted innovation, amid a p ush to do away with paper records, many physicians say they’re still hamstrung by issues that have dogged them for years. We’ve replaced the medical chart with a patchwork of systems that impose on doctors’ precious time and have yet to deliver clear improvements. In a report last year by Med scape, a trade publication, 57 percent of more... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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