“Nuance, provider of clinical documentation and communication products to healthcare organizations, released a survey it conducted with nearly 1,000 physicians. It is somewhat self-serving – more on that later – but it does highlight issues to which EHR vendors need to pay attention.
The take-away from the study, according to Nuance, is that 96 percent of the surveyed physicians are “concerned about losing the unique patient story with the transition to point-and-click (template-driven) EHRs.” The phrasing of the question, particularly “losing the unique patient story” is manipulative, but I get the gist of their concern. With a template-driven EHR, physicians lose the personalization between physician and patient, and personalization in the clinical notes.”
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch, 24 December 2009
