The Lie of the Default EHR: Why You Still Have Work After the Visit

Most of the NPs I precept say some version of the same thing in their first weeks: the EHR is slowing me down. I hear it from NPs starting new jobs, too. Every click takes longer than it should, every note takes too long to build, and the charting that should end with the visit follows them home.

The usual conclusion is that the software is bad, or that they are slow. Usually it is neither. The EHR they are using has not been set up for them yet.