Great discussion. One perspective I find interesting is that for pretty much every EHR (there might be a few exceptions), you can find users that love it and users that hate it. To me this is the...
A couple of points: 1. Drug alerts. This is an all too common complaint, however experience with one bad system does not mean that all EHRs are faulty. Users need to know which systems are failin...
The other dimension I would add to this would be, "do users love it?" As we continue to see the "consumerization" of enterprise software, the key to success is the % of people that would recommen...
I am a clinical informaticist. I won't even go into whether or not I agree with the 4 layers and their definitions. Looking at "functionality": EMRs overall, are not mature enough to accommodate ...
(My comments are based on use of GE's Centricity outpatient EHR.) Functional? Not very, if the function is health care. Drug alerts tell us that birth control pills are contraindicated in women a...