Electronic Health Records Fail Because They are Merely Digital Remakes of Paper Charts
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaWriting in a new Perspective published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from Penn Medicine’s Center for Health Care Innovation argue that Electronic Health Records should be restructured from mere digital remakes of their old pen and paper ancestors into platforms that allow doctors to “subscribe” to their patients’ clinical information to receive real-time updates when an action is required, similar to social media feeds and notifications.