The Problems with Transitioning to an Electronic Health Record

There was an interesting article in Healthcare IT news about users on user dissatisfaction with the electronic health record at
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/ehr-users-dissatisfied-consider-switch?topic=08,17,19

The article brings to light the importance of healthcare providers having essential informatics knowledge.  The two problems identified were:

• Providers not having enough knowledge to make decisions on purchase of a system
• Software developers not meeting the needs of practice settings

 It is a tragic situation because electronic systems are very expensive and implementation is time intensive. In addition, healthcare is very complex.  We have much work to accomplish as we work to develop an information exchange system.