The pleasure of electronic medical records

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  • 04/04/2023

    The pleasure of electronic medical records

    Digital Minimalism — An Rx for Clinician Burnout | NEJM

    It’s easy to see how digital minimalism’s first tenet, “clutter is costly,” applies: the average patient’s EHR has 56% as many words as Shakespeare’s longest play, Hamlet. Moreover, half these words are simply duplicated from previous documentation.

    Progress isn’t inevitable. Not even likely in some domains over working lifetimes.