Longyear Health January 24, 2026
The electronic health record (EHRs) represents one of the most consequential technological transformations in modern medicine. Although, I once argued that EHRs must have improved patient outcomes and safety with someone on Twitter (back in the good old days of Twitter) and, subsequently and very publicly, proved myself wrong after looking around on PubMed for several hours to back up my assertion. So, maybe not yet proven as clinically consequential, but the digitization of health records has produced massive research data sets, an opportunity to develop health AI algorithms, cost health systems and tax payers lots of money, and have contributed heavily to clinician burnout. So, they are consequential.
These digital systems replaced paper charts with comprehensive databases tracking every...
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