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Electronic Health Records: First Do No Harm
August 31, 2009 by MarkBebout
Filed under Technology
In medicine, we have all heard the creed “first, do no harm”, from the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates. This is an excellent principle for physicians to guide them in their practice of medicine. It is also, however, an excellent creed to guide physicians in their quest for the right electronic health record (EHR) system.
Most of the practices that we advise and that are using some form of EHR are struggling to make their adoption successful. The struggles range from the minor troubles such as workflow disruptions and input irritations that drive staff nuts, to the “what have we done to ourselves” sentiment. There is a common theme among these practices, and that is that every one of them made major missteps key areas of the project before the first piece of software was ever installed. They were not adequately prepared, and as one physician recently shared with me, his practice has been “harmed” by their EHR efforts. Read more
Electronic Health Records: First Do No Harm
August 31, 2009 by MarkBebout
Filed under Technology
In medicine, we have all heard the creed “first, do no harm”, from the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates. This is an excellent principle for physicians to guide them in their practice of medicine. It is also, however, an excellent creed to guide physicians in their quest for the right electronic health record (EHR) system.
Most of the practices that we advise and that are using some form of EHR are struggling to make their adoption successful. The struggles range from the minor troubles such as workflow disruptions and input irritations that drive staff nuts, to the “what have we done to ourselves” sentiment. There is a common theme among these practices, and that is that every one of them made major missteps key areas of the project before the first piece of software was ever installed. They were not adequately prepared, and as one physician recently shared with me, his practice has been “harmed” by their EHR efforts. Read more
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