It's kind of "dog-bites-man" type news, but there is even more evidence that physicians not only don't think EHRs are helping them but actually see them as contributing to burnout. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic found that use of EHRs (or computerized physician order entries -- CPOEs) was associated with lower satisfaction with time spent on clerical tasks, with nearly half of physicians saying the amount of time spent on clerical tasks was unreasonable. No wonder the AMA CEO recently complained that physicians were turning into the "most expensive data entry force on the face of the planet."
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Emergency Department EHRs 'Particularly Error Prone'
Marla Durben Hirsch | Fierce EMR | June 25, 2013
Electronic health records provide many benefits, but also bring about "unintended consequences" of errors that can affect patient safety in the emergency department, according to a new article in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. Read More »
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External Pressures Force Community Hospitals To Reconsider EMR Systems
Press Release |
KLAS Enterprises LLC |
December 17, 2012
Dissatisfaction with EMR performance and economic challenges cause community hospitals to question EMR selection Read More »
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Four Years Later: The Impact Of The HITECH Act On EHR Implementations
David Fried | The Profitable Practice | May 21, 2013
Since 2009, Software Advice has gathered data on tens of thousands of practices looking to purchase medical software. We’ve tapped into that data to determine [the following]: Read More »
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Guess What: Docs Don't Like EHRs
By Kim Bellard | June 29, 2016
Has EHR Usability Suffered For The Sake Of Adoption Speed?
Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | September 13, 2013
The need for speed may have left truly meaningful use of electronic health records in the dust, says Larry Pawola, Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago Health Informatics in a blog for The Information Daily. Read More »
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Hospital Nurses Forced To Develop Creative Workarounds To Deal With EHR System Flaws; Outdated Technologies And Lack Of Interoperability, Reveals Black Book
Press Release |
Black Book |
October 17, 2014
The most instrumental stakeholders of hospital EHR success are undeniably nurses, yet 98% of licensed RN’s agree that they have never been included in hospital technology decisions or design. 13,650 US nurses, a group rarely surveyed as the prime users of inpatient technologies, responded to Black Book’s Q3 2014 EHR Loyalty Poll addressing the difficulties of systems selected by non-clinicians and the impact on patient care...
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Hospital Sues NextGen Over EMR Implementation
Julie Bird | FierceEMR | January 2, 2014
A small Montana hospital recently filed suit against NextGen Healthcare Information Systems in federal court alleging the company failed to deliver an electronic health records system as promised, the Helena Independent Record reported. Read More »
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Hospital Technology is the New Determinant of Patient Satisfaction According to EHR User Survey
Press Release |
Black Book Research |
April 20, 2018
Electronic health record technology and the ways that providers use it to communicate with patients and physicians is affecting how satisfied stakeholders are with their hospital organizations. The insight is revealed within the eighth annual Black Book industry surveys of inpatient EHR users including hospital staff, managers, networked physicians and patient panels. “Involvement with healthcare consumers through technologies is proving to be a significant element of patient satisfaction,” said Doug Brown, managing partner of Black Book Research.
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Hospital’s Electronic Health Record To Be Replaced By New, Efficient “Paper Chart” System
The Punky-Looking Kiddo | GomerBlog | July 8, 2014
Citing slow load times, confusing menu structure, and overall frustration with the user interface, St. Barnaby’s Hospital has announced that the old electronic health record (EHR) will be replaced with a new state of the art binder-based system, in which a so-called “paper chart” is kept for each patient...
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Joint EHR Costs Skyrocketed To $28 Billion, DoD Says
Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | July 11, 2013
Physicians spending a paltry twenty or thirty thousand dollars on their EHR implementations can take comfort in the fact that they don’t have to foot the bill for the recently abandoned joint VA-DoD EHR system, which would have cost the taxpayers $28 billion, according to Frank Kendall, undersecretary of Defense for acquisitions. Read More »
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Many Dissatisfied Physicians To Switch EHR Vendors
Pamela Lewis Dolan | amednews.com | March 12, 2013
Practices say they’re stuck with systems that haven’t been customized, but some concede they didn’t adequately assess their needs before buying them. Read More »
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Measuring EHR pain points: High Cost, Poor Functionality Outweigh Benefits, Ease Of Access
Michael McBride | Medical Economics | February 10, 2014
Medical Economics collected hundreds of comments from physicians about electronic health record (EHR) systems. While respondents noted the benefits EHRs provide in functions such as e-prescribing and mobile applications, they say cumbersome systems have drained cash from their practices, and worsened patient care because of inefficiencies. Read More »
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Medical Scribes To The Rescue
Jason Ruben | Marin Medical Society (MMS) | September 1, 2012
Electronic health records are supposed to revolutionize healthcare. Why now the physician backlash? As a practicing emergency physician I can attest that current EHR systems are so poorly designed that most emergency physicians I know loathe using them. Read More »
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Nurses Not Happy With Hospital EHRs
Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | October 20, 2014
'A poorly implemented EHR with chaotic processes and bungling IT support is becoming a detriment to hospital nurse retention and recruitment'...
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Nurses Not Included In Hospital EHR Planning
Greg Slabodkin | Health Data Management | October 20, 2014
Nurses are being left behind when it comes to planning and implementing electronic health records...The survey of nearly 14,000 U.S. nurses found that 98 percent of licensed RNs say that they have never been included in hospital technology decisions or design...
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