A new survey from Frost and Sullivan finds one of clinicians' main pain points with EHRs is poor information retrieval functions.
The survey collected data from March to May 2014 and was conducted in collaboration of the College of Health Information Management Executives. Major findings included:
- EHRs are too slow and lack targeted information retrieval capabilities. Unstructured data is largely inaccessible.
- Rudimentary search functionality is more important in clinician dislike of EHRs than lack of end-user training or fundamental dislike of technology.
- Natural language processing and visualization dashboards are commonly named as features most likely to improve search functionality.
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