Inside Digital Health June 3, 2019
Dave Lareau, CEO, Medicomp Systems

Rarely a week goes by without a new headline-grabbing report that highlights clinician dissatisfaction with inefficient electronic health records (EHRs). A new study from Reaction Data, for example, reveals that almost 40% of surveyed physicians working in outpatient clinics are considering a replacement of their EHR and other IT tools, and an additional one-third of clinicians claim dissatisfaction with their current systems but aren’t switching because of the expense and/or disruption to their practice.

Why do physicians want to change their EHRs? Because they desire solutions with better ease of use, more functionality and improved interoperability with other IT systems.

As a health IT veteran, I’ve witnessed firsthand the growing physician discontent with these revolutionary systems that promised to bring...

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