Insights Into EHR Documentation Workstations

One of the most important and least covered things in healthcare IT is the various EHR Documentation Workstations.  No doubt it’s a regular topic of conversations at healthcare organizations because an EHR workstation configuration really impacts EHR users experience and therefore the patient.  It’s not as sexy to talk about workstations when you could talk about AI.  However, a healthcare organization’s approach to the right workstations for their users can have one of the biggest impacts on their users’ experience.

Over the years, we’ve seen quite the evolution when it comes to workstations in healthcare.  Most people will remember the COWs (Carts on Wheels) that many didn’t appreciate so they changed it to the more respectful WOWs (Workstation on Wheels).  Of course, the early iterations of these were heavy and often lacked the battery life needed to match a busy clinician’s needs.  Thankfully, both of these have improved over time as far as weight and battery options.

Once the iPhone and even more so the iPad arrived on the scene, many were saying that the workstation was dead in healthcare.  Well, we’ve certainly not seen that happen largely because mobile devices like a smartphone or tablet aren’t great input devices.  Much to their chagrin, a lot of what healthcare professionals do is input data.  So, the EHR documentation workstation in healthcare lives on.

The reality today is that we’ve had a wide variety of options.  I recently sat down with Kevin Bridges, VP of Marketing and Business Development, and Marc LaFleur, VP of New Customer Development at Enovate Medical, to talk over all the various options available today and how healthcare organizations should navigate them.  They share the latest options and the explosion of peripherals that are needed with the workstations.  They also talk about whether workstations need to be mobile or not and the evolution we’ve seen when it comes to mobility.

If you want to understand some of the latest insights into how to better manage your healthcare workstations, check out the interview below:

Learn more about Enovate Medical: https://www.enovatemedical.com/

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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