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01-04-2020 | Perspective
Letting a Good Crisis Go to Waste
Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 4/2020
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The widespread implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) was predicated on hopes that they would rapidly improve care, but initial experiences have been disappointing and thought to be a key part of physician dissatisfaction and burnout. The crisis created by EHR implementation is only in part due to EHRs themselves, and might also be viewed as a crisis that has served to surface longstanding problems in healthcare—ones that if grappled with, will lead to more rapidly effective digital transformation.