The digitization of health care holds great promise, but converting large health systems across the U.S. to digital platforms poses numerous challenges, especially for doctors who use the systems daily.
In the November 12, 2018 issue of the New Yorker, Atul Gawande, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and executive director of Ariadne Labs, wrote an in-depth article on the issue in which he detailed his own experience of learning to use the Epic computer system, explored the frustrations colleagues expressed in recent years about their increasing dependence on computers, and looked at how the rise of computers is impacting the doctor-patient relationship.
Read the New Yorker article: Why Doctors Hate Their Computers