Medical Economics October 7, 2020
Usability and interoperability are top physician complaints, but will 2021 bring any relief?
Physicians often see the EHR as the bane of their professional existence, complaining about awful user interfaces and a lack of interoperability with other systems that forces them to access multiple platforms to get the information they need on one patient.
But they also understand that potential remains. Most doctors don’t want to go back to the days of paper records, nor is every part of the EHR beyond salvaging. There are many issues that need to be addressed before doctors will be satisfied with them, so Medical Economics spoke with Rob Tennant, director of Health Information Technology Policy, Medical Group Management Association, to talk about EHRs...