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With about 400,000 educators about to become eligible for the vaccine in Massachusetts on Thursday, some have scored appointments through CVS, which has already allowed teachers to sign up. Oh my Gosh, I thought I won the lottery, said Cathy Dowd, a teacher at Needham High School. I teach a class of seniors, and in that class of 24, there s been six cases. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
Dowd, who teachers AP Government and US history, says in-person learning is critical, but needs to be safe. There were two students that came in who were contagious and a third student contracted the virus, said Dowd. And the public health nurses believe it happened in my classroom.
âThey need to figure this outâ: Five ways to build a better vaccine registration site
By Hiawatha Bray Globe Staff,Updated March 4, 2021, 1:35 p.m.
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Doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine at the Tufts Medical Center COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Boston on Thursday. Tufts Medical Center received its first shipment of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine and began administration to community patients Thursday morning.Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff
As COVID-19 vaccines continue to roll out in Massachusetts, the stateâs much-criticized Vaxfinder website for arranging vaccine shots remains a topic of concern. The site crashed completely two weeks ago during a surge of vaccination requests, but mostly
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association this past week found that, while electronic health record vendors have demonstrated promising levels of advancement, EHR usability continues to be a major hurdle after implementation.
The paper – authored by MedStar Health s Dr. Aaron Z. Hettinger and Raj M. Ratwani, along with Yale School of Medicine s Dr. Edward R. Melnick – examined the usability practices of four unnamed EHR vendors. Implementation processes such as healthcare-facility configuration and customization choices, training and policy all impact usability of EHR technology, noted Hettinger, Melnick and Ratwani. The difference between EHR products pre- and post-implementation, called the EHR usability reality gap, continues to be a significant challenge, they continued.
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Poorly designed, time-consuming electronic health record user interfaces are a common and longstanding complaint among doctors and nurses.
Interfaces that are not intuitive or that require too much effort to accomplish necessary recordkeeping can push clinicians – many of whom already are charting at home after hours – too far. It’s just more stress on top of existing burnout, especially during the pandemic.
In this seventh feature story in the
Healthcare IT News Burnout in the Age of COVID-19 series, usability experts from three top EHR vendors and one top technology design firm outline the user interface/user experience problems that physicians and nurses have encountered, solutions to these problems, and where EHR and health IT usability is headed in the future.