Thursday March 24, 2011 12:00 am
Health information technology (HIT) holds promise for facilitating vast improvements in care and, ultimately, in the health of Americans, but achieving that potential remains a daunting task. A recent article in the Los Angeles Times described the new phenomenon of hiring computer-savvy undergraduate "scribes" to take notes for physicians during patient encounters and enter the information into electronic health records (EHRs) — a practice that suggests how far we must go to develop EHRs that clinicians will embrace.
