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I noticed a lot of the complaints about "problems" with the EHR is in reality mistakes made by humans that the software could theoretically have caught, like b

• projektfu 8y ago
  I got the impression that people were complaining that such concerns are easily hidden in the confusion of the interface. With paper records, perhaps the hospital would have a system of making the summary page of the record (which is supposed to be updated before it gets put away) have important information about drug allergies, etc. In the EHR it may be 10 or 12 point text tucked into one line at the top or bottom of the screen and may not be visible on every page. Some physicians also have to deal with several different EHRs depending on where they're working on a given day. Paper records are straightforward. You read through them completely and then go to work. If you don't do that, you're taking on a risk that you missed something important. EHRs can make that a little harder by obfuscating the history, only pulling up parts of the history at once, etc. I think there's an interesting role to play for AI in creating useful, readable summaries of medical records that physicians can use. Probably too hard to get right to prevent accidentally censoring information that was important.