Smart EHR Implementation Decisions Key to Usability Improvements

EHR Intelligence December 4, 2017
Kate Monica

A panel of four healthcare leaders emphasized the importance of maintaining a focus on user-centered design during the EHR implementation process.

Encouraging healthcare organizations and health IT companies to make smarter decisions during the EHR implementation process is the oft-overlooked but vitally important key to enabling EHR usability improvements, according to experts convened during the ONC Annual Meeting on November 30.

The panel led by ONC Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Andy Gettinger included CMS Director and CMO Kate Goodrich, ONC CMO Tom Mason, National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare Senior Research Scientist and Scientific Director Raj Ratwani, and University of Vermont Health Network Interim Chief Nursing Informatics Officer Rebecca Freeman.

Gettinger framed the discussion by invoking the idea of...

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