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In my personal experience, EHRs do not make me feel like I am doing a better job and take time away from interacting with patients (which I love).
Secondly, EHRs have been linked with physician burnout. http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/mayo-study-links-ehrs-with-physician-burnout.html
There are just so many issues that I just wonder why it is not a richer area of innovation.
As a dermatologist, my gripes are mainly about the provider facing interface, but there are so many things to improve upon in this area alone.
To name a few:
Data entry takes forever.
Coming up with a longitudinal view of any specific problem requires piecing together sequential notes which takes far too long.
Patient access to their own charts without context sometimes leads to misunderstandings. Like documenting a finding of S.O.B. (shortness of breath)
And that is ignoring many other equally important perspectives.
So I ask: what do you perceive as the hurdles of this sector, and what would the process be to come up with EHR 2.0?