EMR Benefits: Physicians
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Physician Recruitment
68% of physicians surveyed by the National Center for Health Statistics report that the implementation and use of electronic health records is seen as an asset when recruiting physicians to their practice.[1]
Physician Satisfaction
An association has been shown to exist between EMR use and physician satisfaction with their current practice[76], as well as with their career satisfaction [77].
Standardization of Practice
Although publication of evidence-based medicine abounds, it has been noted that physicians do not practice according to proven guidelines.[2] The reasons are numerous. One of them is that busy physicians do not have the time to read publications that have increased exponentially. [3] Another is the innate human limitation in the capacity to integrate information during decision-making.[2] This has led to a decline in patient care standards.[3] CDDS can increase compliance with evidence-based practice by presenting the needed information to the clinician at the point of care.[2] And while there is resistance to its use from physicians who view CDSS as an out of the box practice that is not tailored to their clinical workflow, it has been noted that incorporating factors such as patient-specific information, consideration of comorbid conditions, and organized and explicit presentation, might result in increased CDSS utilization. [4]
References
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedJamoom - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Morris, A. H. (2000). Developing and implementing computerized protocols for standardization of clinical decisions. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1532046407001049
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Sackett, D. L., & Rosenberg, W. M. (1995). The need for evidence-based medicine. J R Soc Med, 88(11), 620-624. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1295384/?tool=pmcentrez
- ↑ Sittig, D. F., Wright, A., Osheroff, J. A., Middleton, B., Teich, J. M., Ash, J. S., . . . Bates, D. W. (2008). Grand challenges in clinical decision support. J Biomed Inform, 41(2), 387-392. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2007.09.003. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1532046407001049
