Advancing Practice Science With Electronic Health Record Use Data

In a New Yorker article, Atul Gawande¹ examined reasons “why doctors hate their computers.” A better question might be, “why do US doctors hate their computers?” In this issue of JAMA Internal Medicine, the study by Holmgren et al² points to a portion of the answer, presenting data on the differences in physician time costs between US and non-US clients of the same electronic health record (EHR) vendor.