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Experts underestimated EHRs' impact on burnout after HITECH Act
Healthcare IT News ~ Kat Jercich ~ 19/02/2021
Many 2020 fellows labeled concerns around decreased data quality from cut/paste behaviors, forced workarounds due to EHR limitations, increase in documentation and reporting requirements, and clinician cognitive load as "much worse than we expected."
N.B. electronic medical records system rollout botched, says auditor general
CBC News ~ Jacques Poitras ~ 23/02/2021
The New Brunswick government botched the rollout of an electronic medical record system for doctors, leading to $26 million of provincial and federal money being spent on a tool that fewer than half of the province's physicians adopted.
