Electronic Health Records Costing Patients Direct Physician Care

Electronic health records are being adopted by health care providers at an increasing pace, including due to incentives from the federal government. But "modern EHRs are often overly focused on data entry and typically provide poorly designed data displays with rudimentary functions for searching and organizing patient data. The data entry steals physician time away from direct patient care," Forbes reports. The Government Accountability Office has said the incentive program for EHRs doesn't have the ability to demonstrate that patient care is improved by EHRs, Forbes also reports.