Last Saturday was a doozy. What started out as a normal weekend morning – some quality time with my 2 year old and catching up on the chores I ignored most of the week – turned into a day consumed by visits to two different ERs and a pediatric urgent
I quickly realized the difference between my daily tech and health tech: the applications that I use in my daily life are built for me, the end-user. The technology that I use as a physician—the EHR—was built to satisfy the business of healthcare. Not the delivery of care.
Despite high hopes for what could have been, the approval rating for electronic health records continues to deteriorate.