Becker's Healthcare February 12, 2020
While most hospitals and health systems have made the transition from paper medical records to an electronic system, physicians are still required to adapt to changes as EHRs are optimized beyond initial implementation.
A team of Columbus-based Ohio State University Medicine and St. Louis-based Washington University School of Medicine researchers identified ways health systems can improve EHR adaptations for physicians, according to a Feb. 10 study published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.
For the qualitative study, the research team interviewed nine physicians across a range of inpatient disciplines at a large Midwest-based academic medical center, which implemented an Epic EHR in 2011. Participants were asked questions on five main topics: physician background information, frequency and perceptions of EHR...