An evaluation framework jointly developed by the American Medical Association and MedStar Health’s National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare claims to identify a lack of EHR user-centered design and testing best practices among several of the most common EHR technologies. The most glaring of evaluations concerns the ambulatory EHR designed by Epic Systems which […]
Monthly archives: October 2015
Healthcare and Technology: Intersecting Our Lives in Ways Never Before Imagined
Just a couple years removed from the age of the electronic health records, technology that already seems dated and antiquated, is no longer monolithic and domineering to the space as it likely seemed in 2010. The technology – EHRs were supposed to save healthcare and are now nothing but foundational. When the promise of those […]
Patient portals have a future as a patient engagement tool if clinicians are on board and encourage their use
Patient portals have the potential to simplify practice operations and reduce physician costs, but only if patients adopt and use them. Here some of the key takeaways. 1. Physicians need to raise awareness about patient portal availability and benefits. 2. Patients still prefer hearing from physicians by phone, rather than through a portal, but younger […]