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To Drive Value, EHRs Need to Actually be Usable

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Khalid Al-Maskari, Founder and CEO of Health Information Management Systems (HiMS) EHRs are ubiquitous because they’re useful – but how useful are they really, and to whom? The truth is that an EHR by definition serves multiple masters, satisfying some more than others.

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What Duplicate Patient Notes Reveal About Health Care and Its Records

Healthcare IT Today

This seems to me a reasonable way to identify duplicates, although one can question what happens when an EHR automatically generates text. That question would call for yet another study, which would interview the nurses and doctors themselves. Several respondents pointed out that the primary purpose of EHRs is billing, not treatment.

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