Health Care Renewal with a nice piece on this. So many EHRs are not geared towards what providers value most: productivity and faster charting. Forget the bells and whistles.
In fact, I read somewhere (sorry, I can’t find the link) that most EHRs actually increase the time spent charting. Think that would be an incentive to adopt an EHR?
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The idea of computers at the bedside is tantalizing. Problem is the computers are anywhere but where the patients are. Computerized records have the completely forseeable, but unapreciated (by management) effect of pulling providers away from the patients. There is a zero sum proposition here; every minute spent at a terminal is a minute that is not providing patient oriented care.
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