Description: Posts from an Insane Healthcare System
Posts from an Insane Healthcare System
EHR Interface Design = a giant MESS (Photo credit: juhansonin )
It’s rare for doctors to turn out en masse for a public protest. But that’s what happened at “Doccupy†in Contra Costa County  California in 2012. A group of safety net physicians testified before county supervisors — in what they only half-jokingly called “Doccupy†— that the cumbersome move to electronic health records (EHRs) had taken an enormous toll on patient care. The doctors saw half their usual number of patients. As a result, they told supervisors, one in ten patients left the emerg