Electronic Health Record Optimization and Clinician Well-Being: A Potential Roadmap Toward Action
Tina Shah, Andrea Borondy Kitts, Jeffrey A. Gold, Keith A. Horvath, Alex Ommaya, Frank G. Opelka, Luke Sato, Gretchen Schwarze, Mark Upton, Lew Sandy
Abstract
In the United States, 86 percent of office-based and 94 percent of hospital-based physicians currently use an electronic health record (EHR), incentivized by the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act [1,2]. While intended to improve care quality and efficiency, the EHR has inadvertently burdened clinicians and is now considered […]
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