Healthcare IT News April 10, 2017
Electronic health record vendors are making the software more user-friendly, but not nearly fast enough.
Just about every week or so there’s a new report chronicling doctors’ frustrations with electronic health records. Drill down a bit and the source of discontent becomes clear: poor usability, clunky interfaces, ineffective search and too many clicks.
So what would actually make doctors like their EHR?
“They need a tremendous makeover with lots of clinical input to make it easy to do not only the right thing, but the things you do all the time,” said Robert Wachter, MD, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
Incremental improvements needed now
Wachter said that a makeover would include injecting...
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