The EHR systems I have seen in hospitals remind me of a lot of the typical enterprise software systems. Convoluted and really hard to use. Pretty much all the systems my company uses just plain suck.
I think it has to do with the fact that the buyers (decision makers) of the system are not the actual users so decisions are made based on everything but usability.
Re:What we lose with data-driven medicine
by nickthemagicman on Saturday May 19, 2018 @04:39PM
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I agree. I feel like this is an implementation problem not a problem with EHR in general. Just because a Ford Pinto is a bad car doesn't mean cars in general are bad.
As time goes on people will figure out new ways like you're suggesting of using the technology.
Re:What we lose with data-driven medicine
by whowouldathunk on Saturday May 19, 2018 @06:53PM
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They do, they’re called scribes.
Re:What we lose with data-driven medicine
by philipkglass on Saturday May 19, 2018 @07:29PM
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That makes sense. Do you know why they aren't more common, to the extent that many doctors apparently spend much of their day on EHR data entry?
Maybe I'm just relying too much on this article plus a few similar complaints I've read in the past. Maybe most doctors don't spend much time on data entry but I only see the grievances of the few that are forced to.
Maybe people are worried that EHR quality would suffer if people with fewer credentials entered the data. According to the article EHR systems are already full of garbage data entered by physicians. Does it actually get worse if data entry specialists do the entry instead? This appears to be readily testable. You can have them do it in parallel with the physicians who enter their own EHR data now, and compare after a year.