“Today, EHRs are not designed to support clinical decision-making since physicians are faced with information overload, time pressures, multi-tasking, and the need to aggregate and synthesize information from disparate sources. Today’s systems serve as a medium for information storage and retrieval but are rarely aligned with mental processes that underlie clinical decisions.
In doing research on decision-making, it has been found that expert medical decision makers mentally organize information in task-specific ways for efficient effective and safe diagnostic or therapeutic decisions.”
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Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News, 26 June 2011
