Nurses are more dissatisfied than ever with EHR systems, according to the Q3 2014 Black Book EHR Loyalty survey.
The survey polled 13,650 U.S. nurses on the difficulties of EHRS and how they impact patient care.
The survey found 92 percent of nurses are dissatisfied with their EHRS, and 98 percent of nurses were never included in hospital technology decisions or design.
"The meaningful use financial incentives for hospitals have many IT departments scurrying to implement these EHRs without consulting direct care nurses," said Doug Brown, managing partner of Black Book Market Research. "Technology can help nurses do their job more effectively or it an be a highly intrusive burden on the hospital nurse delivering patient care….Many compounding nurse productivity problems can be sourced to the failure of those selecting and implementing an EHR to involve direct care nurses in the process."
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