MedCity News January 6, 2022
One reason clinicians struggle to find what they need in EHRs is because most legacy systems were not designed to provide a diagnostically holistic view for specific clinical conditions.
If you listen to healthcare industry chatter, you’ll hear that we are in the “post-EHR” world in which everyone has electronic health records that can easily be shared between providers, thanks to the requirements of the 21st Century Cures Act.
We may be getting ahead of ourselves, however, because users still cannot find what they are looking for even in their own systems––and this situation will only get worse when data begins flowing in from other providers.
This is not a new revelation. In fact, I mentioned the challenge in a...