Medical Economics: Highly experienced physicians lost to medicine over bad health IT

The title of the article is actually "Physicians leaving profession over EHRs" , but that title omits the real impact of the phenomenon: seasoned physicians, along with their medical expertise, judgment and experience, are lost to the pool of people entrusted to provide care thanks to poorly designed and badly implemented IT:http://cci.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/cases/Bad Health IT is IT that is ill-suited to purpose, hard to use, unreliable, loses data or provides incorrect data, is difficult and/or prohibitively expensive to customize to the needs of different medical specialists and subspecialists, causes cognitive overload, slows rather than facilitates users, lacks appropriate alerts, creates the need for hypervigilance (i.e., towards avoiding IT-related mishaps) that increases stress, is lacking in security, lacking in evidentiary soundness, compromises patient privacy or otherwise demonstrates suboptimal design and/or implementation.This is yet another article observing that the trajectory of health IT was not what the pioneers who taught me Medical Informatics intended:Physicians leaving profession over EHRsMedical EconomicsKeith LoriaJanuary 24, 2018http://medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com/medical-economics/news/physicians-leaving-profession-over-ehrsUntil recently, most doctors created their own workflows and utilized only the technology they were comfortable using. But with the implementation of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Hea...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Management Tags: bad health IT data trafficking Ddulite Medical Economics Munzoor Shaikh physicians leaving medicine Ramin Javahery MD Tom Davis MD FAAFP Source Type: blogs