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Every day physicians spend a considerable amount of time using electronic health records to support care delivery, this amount of time widely varies in distribution within specialty according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Close to 155,000 American physicians from 417 health systems were involved in this study to examine how …
The electronic health record was supposed to make things easier for doctors, but when it comes to the actually usability of the EHR doctors have spoken and rated it rather poorly, rating the systems with an F; poor usability of the EHR systems correlates with the high rate of physician burnout according to a recent …
A data breach has demonstrated that adoption of digital record storage systems may be making patient privacy vulnerable; this breach involves close to 12 million patients who got blood testing through Quest Diagnostics who may have had their personal records hacked according to reports. Quest Diagnostics, one of the nation’s largest blood test providers, says …