HIT Consultant June 29, 2020
EHRs have long been blamed for fueling clinician frustration and burnout. According to a recent study published in the Journal of Informatics in Health and Biomedicine, 70 percent of clinicians reported experiencing stress related to the use of health information technology. In an effort to address those issues, healthcare organizations have spent countless hours and revenue to rip out inefficient clinical systems and replace them with new technologies—yet clinician satisfaction hasn’t necessarily improved.
Meanwhile, the pandemic is creating disruptive changes across healthcare, forcing leaders to re-assess everything from how care is delivered, to how patients and staff can be kept safe from infection, to how to pay for evolving needs out of already over-stretched budgets. While the situation has created...