“Have you ever looked over a doctor’s shoulder when they are using an EMR? What you see is hard to describe. Picture a crowded screen with fields, data, buttons and menus that fill up the entire screen. Picture a screen so crowded that if you wanted to add another data field you would be hard pressed to find some real estate on the already crowded screen. But if you keep watching you would be even more amazed. If a doctors wants to send an electronic prescription to a pharmacy for the patient she might have to click on 4 or 5 pages to accomplish the task. The amount of options and choices that the doctor has to navigate through is truly daunting. What I just described is not true for every EMR. With over 300 EMRs on the market, and growing, some of the EMR vendors have figured out usability and design. But unfortunately many of the vendors have not.”
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Art Gross, Entegration, 23 January 2011
