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Jonathan B Blitzer commented on Robert M. Schumacher, Ph.D.'s blog post 'EHRs and Usability'

I know a lot of work has been done to improve usability but difficulties arise from the fundamental purpose of an EHR, which is to produce a document, It is not to produce healthcare. So EHR's are engineered for smooth, easy production of documents,…

May 29, 2009

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EHRs and Usability

One topic that is getting increasing attention in Health IT is usability. There is gnashing of teeth when discussing how unfriendly a given EHR is to use, or how unproductive medical professionals can become when an EHR is put into a practice. Indeed there is a growing list of published research showing how usability is one of the key barriers to adoption of EHRs and reasons for rejection once they are implemented. So this caused us to ask a very simple question: Is usability considered when sel… Continue