This Offers Hope The user Interface Of EHRs Will Steadily Get Better. Can’t Wait!

This appeared a little while ago.A look inside Epic's EHR design and usability teamsHealthcare IT News traveled to Epic’s campus to learn how the company thinks about design and usability. Takeaway: Health IT is hard. One vice president even said if she wanted an easier job she could just go to Facebook. By Bernie MonegainAugust 22, 2016 07:28 AMJanet Campbell is a software developer and vice president of patient engagement at Epic Systems.In that role, she is focused on patient portals and engagement features but also on home health and telemedicine. That means working closely with the usability team as well as the standards and interoperability experts.Campbell and other Epic developers — notably Sumit Rana, Epic’s senior vice president of R&D — work with clinicians toward the end goal of being to enable doctors and nurses to interact with patients in a way Campbell described as focused and friction-free.Programmers doing fieldwork “Anything and everything we now develop,...

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