Executive Summary
While the digitization of health information has solved many problems in American medicine — particularly, helping to reduce medical errors by enhancing clinical decision support — it has inevitably created many new ones. Clinician-oriented solutions such as electronic health records (EHRs) are contributing to physician burnout instead of facilitating patient care. Many anticipated that health information technology would reduce costs by limiting the duplication of tests and studies, but there is little evidence that it has accomplished this. And…
