Leonardo Massarelli

That tip came from an ED doctor during some recent research. I laughed it off at first, but he wasn’t joking. He went on to describe the battle that is recording patient notes. What used to take him a minute on paper is now several painful minutes of selecting check boxes and menu items on his whiz-bang electronic health record.

Doctors in the US now spend an extra 4 hours a week adding patients notes to their electronic health records (EHRs). These systems claim to save time and help people provide better care, but do they?

In a recent review of existing eHealth Apps, roughly two thirds of available offerings were identified as targeting personal wellbeing, with one third focused on disease management. This is illustrated in the graph below, taken from that source: