Healthcare Innovation November 15, 2019
The AMA is calling for an overhaul of how EHRs are currently designed
New research has found that electronic health records (EHRs)–as currently designed, implemented and regulated–lack usability as a necessary feature, leading the American Medical Association (AMA) to again urge for improved usability.
The poor usability has resulted in EHRs that are extremely hard to use compared to other common technologies. Poor EHR usability was also found to be highly correlated with physician burnout, according to the research.
The study, posted recently in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, involved surveying nearly 900 physicians on EHR usability, asking them to grade system usability on a 1 to 100 scale. The average score from the study sample ended up being a 45.9, which...
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