The practice of medicine is an art based on science.
– Sir William Osler

This was famously stated over 100 years ago by Dr. Osler, the father of modern medicine and the physician who laid the foundation for professionalism in health care.  In this vein, a panel of experts from Boston-area hospitals and elsewhere recently convened to attack the question, “What needs to change to get doctors back to the patients?”  While the primary …

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The title itself should make us all cringe!  If there’s one thing I know to be true, it is that putting clinicians at the helm of electronic medical record (EMR) design is doomed to create a product with limited scope and lack of forward-thinking trajectory.  Yet, the concept of integrating and considering the physician point of view and workflow is critical to successful EMR functionality.

The question is how can clinician …

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