Care Planning systems are information systems used by health care providers to create, edit, communicate and track the status of patient problems and the associated services ordered to address those problems. They may offer point-of-care decision support and care plan templates to improve the quality and consistency of clinical decision-making processes. They may be accessible by patients.
In a recent paper in the Annals of Family Medicine by Brian Arndt and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, the authors described the results of an analysis of the user event logs of their Epic EMR. The authors determined that primary care clinicians used the system nearly 6 hours per day out of an
There is a popular adage for information technology professionals: “Don’t pave the cow paths.” I recently worked with a client from Texas, and they were fond of this adage. They said it with the most excellent drawl, giving it extra credibility, as if they may have actually learned it the hard way on their own
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