Healthcare IT News June 2, 2020
Bill Siwicki

The chief nursing officer at Medicomp explains how EHR makers can combat burnout by building better, nurse-inclusive systems with input from frontline staff.

More and more nurses worry that the stress of their job is impacting their health, especially during a pandemic. This can lead to increasing rates of nurse burnout.

In fact, nurses experience many of the same stresses as physicians – increasing administrative burdens, demands to see more patients with less time, and the requirements of using EHR systems, which often are not built to adequately support clinical workflows.

Toni Laracuente, RN, chief nursing officer at EHR vendor Medicomp Systems, says that this year, the health IT industry needs to include the role of nurses in the conversations...

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