Since healthcare providers will eventually need to learn how to work different systems as they move from healthcare setting to healthcare setting, EHR usability is among the top concerns of meaningful use. Marc Probst, co-chair of the workgroup and CIO at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, and other workgroup members wrote in the letter that cars have “a high degree of consistency from vehicle to vehicle,” all of which feature a brake pedal and steering wheel, among other things.
EHRs, on the other hand, feature different controls and applications that will make it hard for physicians and other providers to easily adopt to different systems if they move from the practice setting to a hospital setting, for example.
Read the news report about the adoption and certification workgroup’s letter to ONC.
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