JUNE 8, 2018

EHRs, Meet Social Media

Electronic health records should be changed from mere digital remakes of their old pen-and-paper ancestors into platforms that allow health care professionals to “subscribe” to their patients’ clinical information to receive real-time updates when an action is required, similar to social media feeds and notifications, for a more useful system. 

This would make electronic health records (EHRs) more effective tools that are better able to create workflow efficiencies and