According to the news release, font size, frame size and number of keystrokes for entry may make a difference in how many hospitals and physicians successfully adopt an EMR system. Other clinician complaints include needing to re-enter the same information more than once, important information being buried and confusion over the status of an ordered test.
Read the news release about EMR usability.
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