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Online resources by Columbia, MO physician: how to make EHR/EMR more user friendly.

Resources for providers by local physician:

My good friend and EMR usability expert/evangelist Jeff Belden, MD, family physician and MU faculty member who divides his time between clinical responsibilities and the Tiger Institute,  has shared some good resources:

The first one is his blog, toomanyclicks.com. Here he expounds on his work making the EMR more user friendly. As an example he posted recently (December 2017) on a dynamic note, how to collapse and expand across a dashboard to call on information as needed during clinical encounters.

The next one is his book, available online, at inspiredEHRs.org. The focus of this book is on ambulatory adult clinical care and EHR functionality. The chapters of the book focus on medication lists and reconciliation as well as e-prescribing, drug alerts and allergy lists. Each chapter starts with a clinical scenario to illustrate a point and it is all tied together in the last few chapters where principles of design and human factors are elaborated on so as to illustrate and inform how people interact with these systems and how they, in turn, can be improved. 

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