Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

In this video from the HIMSS Leaders & Innovators conference, three healthcare IT decision makers tell us what they think healthcare will look like in five years.

If you build or create something, wouldn't you take into account ease of use? It is unfathomable then that most EHR vendors do not systematically conduct EHR usability testing, according to Jiajie Zhang, who is overseeing a federal research project on the science of EHR usability in the SHARP program.

In my recent Top 10 EHR Barriers blog, I identified usability of EHR software as a key issue. It appears that NIST, with ARRA funding and ONC guidance is doing something about it.

YouTube user ACMI2008 posted this 1966 clip in which Akron, Ohio-based Akron Children's Hospital touts its 1961 electronic medical record. It was cutting-edge at the time...