Fierce Healthcare September 11, 2018
Tina Reed

A new viewpoint published in JAMA Pediatrics highlighted the importance of specialized design of electronic health records used by pediatric clinicians.

When it comes to medicine, children are not just little adults—and that premise extends to the electronic health records their clinicians rely on, according to a new viewpoint published in JAMA Pediatrics this week.

“There are unique usability and safety challenges for our pediatric populations,” said Raj Ratwani, Ph.D., a researcher with the National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare at Columbia, Maryland-based MedStar Health, in an interview with FierceHealthcare.

For example, he said, when a doctor is giving a medication to a child, they have to take the child’s weight into consideration for dosing.

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