The Clinician-Friendly EHR

Twenty-four years ago, at our first;OPEN MINDS;technology institute, I remember our keynote speaker from Rand Corporation talking about the electronic health records (EHR) mandates. His take was that the EHRs would benefit payers and health plans by gathering clinical data and automating payment processes, but the financial benefit to provider organizations would be insignificant.

Skip ahead two decades, and we do see a financial return on investment (ROI) for provider organizations ;investing in an EHR;(see;Assessing The ROI Of Strategic Technology Investments and Finding An Electronic Health Record System For Your . . .