David Brailer, M.D., Ph.D., was appointed the first National Coordinator for Health Information Technology by former President George W. Bush. A giant in the industry, Dr. Brailer provides his thoughts on the future of health information technology in the United States. You can view the entire article at the URL provided.
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This research spekas directly to the experiences of my client. They are a small oncology practice in Western North Carolina and about two years ago tried an EMR product from one of the large vendors (I won’t say which one). The efficiency of the office degraded so much that they were enthusiastic about switching back to paper. Their solution was to hire a programmer (me) to implement custom software that was 110% focused on their workflow. We realized that the failure point of a lot of EMR implementations were due to good salesmanship on the part of the vendor. I spend a good amount of time ghosting nurses and doctors, taking notes in order to build the best-fitting product possible. I especially like your term laser-focused approach’ because that is exactly how I am tackling this problem. I am chronicling the insights, design decisions, failures and successes at my blog.