The news for healthcare medical records gets worse
What if the data doctors and AI researchers are using inside EMRs and EHRs isn't accurate?
Electronic medical records (sometimes called electronic healthcare records) are having a very bad year.
First came the scathing review from Fortune Magazine and the Kaiser Foundation in March on the occasion of the technology’s 10th anniversary:
Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong
And now a University of California study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests what little data does make it into these records is suspect… STAT’s HealthTech was decidedly blunt about the findings:
And finally, a single ICU patient throws of 873,000 data samples in real time every hour. An EMR/EHR records six of those — and are available at the end of a 12-hour shift — if the patient is lucky.
(Update 11.18.19) In a new Mayo Clinical Proceedings study, doctors rank EHR systems in the bottom 9th percentile for technology usability.
