Becker's Healthcare February 4, 2019
Patient safety and health IT experts have teamed up with the American Medical Association to launch a new campaign to resolve poor EHR usability, dubbed “EHR See What We Mean.”
The MedStar Health and AMA effort recognizes a decade of the EHR. This February marks the 10-year anniversary of the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, which encouraged the adoption of EHRs to improve the safety and quality of patient care. The act is widely credited with the high adoption rate of EHRs today.
For their campaign, Columbia, Md.-based MedStar and the AMA have set up a website — EHRSeeWhatWeMean.org — dedicated to raising awareness of the risks and challenges clinicians face because...