Technology has played an important role in medicine and healthcare today, but its not the fresh-out-of-med school doc’s that are using EHRs. According to the latest study from Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the common assumption that the younger you are, the more inclined you are to adopt new technology is no longer true in healthcare.
The study compared characteristics of doctors who did not use basic EHR functionality and revealed that doctors who graduated over 10 years ago were more likely to use the functionality than those who graduated less than 10 years ago. Super busy doc’s who saw patients with more complex problems were also found to be more likely to adopt EMR systems in comparison to doctors with less complex patient conditions.
“It is important to understand the characteristics of clinicians who are either more or less likely to use newer EHR functionality. This understanding could aid developers and health system leaders in more efficiently targeting design and implementation efforts,” said Jeffrey Linder, MD, MPH, lead author and Primary Care physician-researcher at BWH.
The more we as vendors, know about a doctor and their workflow the more we can better the system to fit the clinicians needs. Case in point: our very own EMR was originally designed by our CMO, Dr. Bob Rowley who is still a integral part of the design and production process.
