STAT March 27, 2020
With the passage of the HITECH Act in 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services successfully pushed the medical community to adopt electronic health records. Leading that effort was the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).
After 10 years of use and billions of dollars of investment, electronic health records (EHRs) have not only failed to live up to their potential but have helped create a crisis in medicine.
To be sure, developing computer software to cover modern medical care is a daunting task. But what has been virtually ignored in the blame game is how designs mandated by ONC have virtually assured that electronic health records will be poorly designed and excessively complex.
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