Healthcare Finance News October 13, 2021
MedAware’s AI solution reduces EHR noise by cutting down on the excessive number of medication alerts.
Electronic health record burnout is a global issue that, like everything else in healthcare, has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The fundamental flaw for physicians from EHRs is not so much the death by 1,000 clicks that has been widely reported, but that EHRs were not built to help them perform better, according to Dr. Gidi Stein, CEO and cofounder of MedAware, based in Israel.
“It was physicians feeding the beast,” Stein said.
Stein, who remains a practicing physician, remembers making rounds 20 years ago with a clipboard of two pieces of paper and writing prescriptions by hand, based on memorizing the...