Clinicians Drowning in EHR Busywork
Healthcare professionals are experiencing significant frustration and inefficiency due to the implementation and use of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) and Electronic Health Records (EHRs). These systems, intended to improve care, often disrupt workflows, steal time from patient interaction, and contribute to burnout, despite substantial investments in their modernization.
SOURCES (60)
“I'm a RD looking to transition out of patient care. Almost every role I've been in, I'm the person who learns the software and creates training material for it for providers and clients. I've been applying to roles where I'd be tech support for EMRs…”
“Project Name: Temetro Repo Link: https://github.com/temetro/temetro Description: Open-source, self-hosted EHR (electronic health record) system built for small clinics — especially in regions where cloud-based healthcare SaaS is too expensive, too foreign, or simply not trusted with patient data. The problem it solves: most open-source EHRs (OpenEMR, OpenMRS, Bahmni) are mature but heavy — legacy stacks, hard to extend, and not built with modern deployment in mind. Commercial alternatives are cl”
“I'm realizing my current system worked fine when I had fewer clients, but it's starting to show its limits. Keeping track of notes, food logs, care plans, recurring appointments, and all the forms has become more work than I expected, and I feel like I'm spending too much time organizing everything after appointments. Did switching to a different health and wellness EHR actually make things easier for you? What features ended up being the ones you relied on every day? submitted”
“If there are any other working Nurse Informaticists lurking on this sub, I'm looking to see if/how any Ambient Listening AI technology roll out is going in your eHR? We are trialing it on several units, both with Abridge and now with Microsoft. Our eHR is Epic. The verbal transcript of the nurse assessing the patient actually documents discrete data in the flowsheets. However, we have not had great successes with utilization and the team responsible is now pivoting the entire project to a pi”
