Written by Kate McDonald on
04 July 2021.
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Apple said the sharing feature’s fall launch will be supported by six EHR vendors: Cerner, DrChrono, Athenahealth, Allscripts, CPSI and Meditech Expanse.
TechCrunch ~ Sarah Perez ~ 02/07/2021
Google is making it possible to store digital versions of either COVID-19 test results or vaccination cards on users’ Android devices.
Healthcare IT News ~ Kat Jercich ~ 01/07/2021
Following a three-month review of the program, Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough said this week that the department would stay the course with the Millennium-based platform, despite scheduling setbacks.
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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.