Even then, we will not get all that we want to see in our EMR, but it appears that suggestions and gripes are being heard, prioritized, and addressed.
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I am very happy with what we have -- barring some obvious improvements that we have all discussed. It is a very usable EMR.
I'm even happier with what we
don't have -- local hospitals use Cerner and EPIC -- both grotesque monsters of unusability and barriers to effective communication (to say nothing of outrageous wasters of resources and time).
Providence hospital system in Portland positively bubbled and glowed when they changed to Centricity a few years ago
""We believe sharing actionable, coded data across care settings will change the delivery of healthcare and break down the information silos that create a fractured experience today," said Laureen O?Brien, chief information officer at Providence Health & Services. "We also believe interoperability will be the way of the future and the future at Providence is now."
-- but it was such a disaster they changed to EPIC at a cost of unknown $milions, and if anything, it is worse.
If only EHR's were designed for patients and physicians, and not for bean counters and lawyers. If....
