The NY Times has published several articles focusing on GP use of EHRs. Here are a few:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/technology/19patient.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/business/01unbox.html http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/nyregion/30records.html You could also look at the prototype "Innovation Clinic" Cook Children’s hospital in Texas, which targets small practices of two to three physicians and also the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System which is setting up a program to offer GPs (and 7,000 other affiliated doctors) subsidies to adopt digital patient records. Alain --- En date de : Mar, 27.10.09, Adam Lerner <voca...@gmail.com> a écrit : > De: Adam Lerner <voca...@gmail.com> > Objet: Re: [IxDA Discuss] DISCUSS: Electronic medical records: bad, ugly, and > dangerous? > À: disc...@ixda.org > Date: mardi 27 Octobre 2009, 1 h 56 > All right, Gregor. Now all we need is > a financial backer and together > we'll get this whole healthcare mess straightened out. We > can write > up a casestudy about how UX can save the world and offer > profit-sharing to the entire IxDA membership for their love > and > support. ;) > > I'm certain that GP practices are very different. Actually, > even > within the ecosystem of the ED we have a lot of different > user > constituencies ranging from nurses who usually check boxes > and > free-text very little to physicians who need the > flexibility to > create a record with maximum flexibility to document care > to lab > systems and specialists who "graze" on select data. > > Then you add in complications such as the entire of the > triage > process needing to be completed within 3-5 minutes (!) > often with > uncooperative or non-communicative patients...well, you get > it. > > Oh, and everybody wants to see every piece of data on the > screen at > all times to support on-the-spot decision-making. > > I would love to learn more about systems that support > private > practice and non-warzone-like medical environments. > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=47008 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > Offrez un compte Flickr Pro à vos amis et à votre famille. http://www.flickr.com/gift/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
