Becker's Healthcare February 6, 2019
Researchers from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and their collaborators have come up with a five-point plan to improve the usability of EHRs in a paper published in JAMA.
“People expected information technology in healthcare to work similar wonders as elsewhere, such as on our phones, so expectations were naturally high when electronic health records were implemented nationally. But healthcare is much more complex, and usability and safety challenges have emerged,” said senior author Hardeep Singh, MD.
The paper is based on lessons from 10 years of initiatives to make EHRs easier to use.
The five-point plan:
1. Develop a national database of usability and safety issues. A national reporting system should be created to monitor and improve...
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