The introduction of the electronic health records (EHRs) has promised to solve a variety of issues related to the efficiency of the healthcare system as a whole. Unfortunately, several years after the introduction of EHR in modern clinical practice the majority of these promises have gone largely unfulfilled.
“The EHR systems currently in use don’t communicate with each other,” says Dr. Steven J. Stack, president of the American Medical Association. That not only impacts patient care but adds significant health care costs, according to the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA), which is developing standards in the area.
“Further,” Stack says, “EHR systems don’t consistently support clinicians providing real care” and “substantially change the ways doctors think and access information, dividing tasks in ways not consistent with how physicians work.
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