EHR Innovations for Healthier Patients and Happier Doctors
End users—clinicians and patients—need to lead the way in the rational design, implementation, and evaluation of EHRs. However, doing this is difficult. End users, who stand the most to gain from EHR use, have limited ability to make substantive changes to their EHR. The North American Primary Care Research Group's HIT committee has issued several calls to action for more primary care researchers to systematically organize these efforts through research. The authors in this HIT theme issue have answered this call and should be both listened to and commended for their pioneering studies. As the field of HIT continues to mature, more opportunities to truly modify, adapt, and test systems will present. Primary care should lead the charge to reach our goal of better HIT use to improve our patients' health outcomes.
Conclusion
End users—clinicians and patients—need to lead the way in the rational design, implementation, and evaluation of EHRs. However, doing this is difficult. End users, who stand the most to gain from EHR use, have limited ability to make substantive changes to their EHR. The North American Primary Care Research Group's HIT committee has issued several calls to action for more primary care researchers to systematically organize these efforts through research. The authors in this HIT theme issue have answered this call and should be both listened to and commended for their pioneering studies. As the field of HIT continues to mature, more opportunities to truly modify, adapt, and test systems will present. Primary care should lead the charge to reach our goal of better HIT use to improve our patients' health outcomes.
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