Modern Healthcare August 13, 2018
Dr. Andrew Boyd

By now, most of us are practiced at the art of distinguishing a well-designed website or smartphone app from a bad one. The elegant ones are easy to understand, responsive, and capable of quickly getting us from point A to point B.

Unfortunately, while the use of electronic health record systems—which are intended to allow physicians and other healthcare providers to efficiently find and access patient medical records—is at an all-time high within hospitals, these systems can’t claim any of those positive attributes.

Not only do poorly designed EHR databases create headaches and waste time for providers, they do much worse than that—a recent JAMA study found that difficulty using EHR systems accounted for upward of 557 patient-safety events between...

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