It’s Time for a New Kind of Electronic Health Record
The Covid-19 pandemic presents the U.S. health care system with a mind-boggling array of challenges. One of the most urgent is coping with a simultaneous glut and dearth of information.
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Well before the Covid-19 pandemic struck, electronic health records were the bane of physicians’ existences. In all too many cases, EHRs seemed to create a huge amount of extra work and generate too few benefits. The pandemic has made the deficiencies of these systems glaringly apparent. This article discusses how EHRs should be transformed so they become an indispensable tool in keeping individual patients and patient populations healthy.