STAT July 27, 2021
Most new, high-profile initiatives start with something splashy. President Biden’s proposed transformative biomedical agency, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), should start with something mundane: revamping the now-ubiquitous electronic health record (EHR).
Once hailed for their potential to transform U.S. health care into a modern, data-driven enterprise, electronic health records have instead increased the burden of data entry, contributed to physician burnout, and had a nebulous impact on the quality of care.
Electronic health records have become the data commons for the U.S. health care system. Every health care worker and patient interacts with these systems in some way, shape, or form. Almost every action that takes place in a hospital, doctor’s office, or other care-delivery setting is...
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