EMRs require better user-centered design
Healthcare IT News recently asked, “Do doctors have to be typists to get MU incentives?”
That question reminded me that given the many hours of unreimbursed labor performing EMR data entry at end of day, a significant chunk of a clinician’s workday is spent performing medical secretary services. Let me set the record straight, I am a good typist. But EMR data entry interfaces are often unnecessarily cumbersome, so clinicians put …