A New Definition of EHR

That’s a pretty funny play on words by Nicholas DiNubile, MD. Well, it’s funny unless you’re the one that’s become the government tool. Dr. DiNubile also shared this picture with the above definition.

While I think that this picture is an exaggeration of reality for most doctors, what isn’t an exaggeration is administrative overheard a doctor has now is much greater than it was in the past. In most cases, the EHR hasn’t made it any better and what the EHR vendors have had to implement for meaningful use and now mACRA have generally made this worse.

Over the past couple weeks, I’ve had the good luck of spending a lot of time with my colleague Shahid Shah. Something he’s been sharing lately is that “Doing stupid faster isn’t innovation.” We see a lot of this in healthcare. Talking to one healthcare IT vendor he came to the realization that all his company does is stupid faster. It was a shocking thought for him and likely for many that read this.

As you look at your organization and where you want to take it, are you focused on true innovation or are you busy doing stupid faster? If you’re doing the former, keep fighting the good fight. If you’re doing the later, it might be time to take a step back and reconsider your path forward.

About the author

John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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