Is a Broken EHR Breaking The Healthcare System?
MedCity News February 8, 2023
Accessing the EHR is becoming a barrier to patient care. As healthcare burnout reaches epidemic levels, we must consider if technology is creating the problem.
Over a decade after ‘Meaningful Use’ – a program that was supposed to improve quality at the point of patient care – clinicians are still struggling to do their jobs. But is technology becoming the problem? Although the transition to electronic health records (EHR) was meant to make healthcare faster and safer, accessing it (efficiently) has proven to be a major obstacle.
Delivering care requires constant interactions with technology, so accessing a patient’s digital medical record should not hold providers back. Yet, it’s one of the biggest barriers in the clinical workflow. The average clinician...