With all the focus around implementing EHRs and deriving meaningful use out of the systems, it's easy to lose sight of the overall common goal, which is all efforts should be to create a healthcare system that delivers better clinical outcomes and eliminates waste.
If we keep to that mindset, EHR adoption should spread more rapidly, especially if providers also look at the massive transformation in patient-centric terms.
It's a good reminder for health IT vendors, as well. Federal funding aside, the whole federal and industry movement is to improve care. While the meaningful use criteria should serve as a sort of checklist for product functionality, EHRs and EMRs should be intuitive for the clinicians in order to drive adoption. Workflow and ease of use are part and parcel to product functionality.
I feel technology can play a role. The recent trend of using EHR’s by clinics is a great win-win situation not only to EHR vendors but also to a much greater extent to the physicians and the patients.
What do you all think?
Source : Blog at EHRwatch
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