Practice tip of the week: Why your EHR is just not enough

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With all the useful information available on Physicians Practice, it is easy to become overwhelmed.

With this in mind, the tip of the week is a chance to reflect on some of the wisdom found all across the site.

In a July 2021 story on the crucial capabilities missing from your EHR, Sanjeev Agrawal and Mohan Giridharadas write the following:

“The EHR is excellent at doing what it was designed and chosen to do—harnessing all of the clinical, financial, operational, and patient-specific data in one place to create a single source of truth for the entire health system. It provides a unified view of all patient encounters across time and across all points of care, showing clinicians and staff a current view of the patient’s unique characteristics; however, the EHR cannot perform tasks it wasn’t built to perform.

There are three fundamental reasons why your EHR isn’t enough:

1). EHRs have a flawed concept of an appointment.

2). EHRs encourage a first-come-first-scheduled mindset.

3). EHRs do not have capacities for probability theory or discrete event simulation.”

Come back next week for another tip of the week.

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