A modern, lean deployment of EHR systems: Two lessons from meaningful use in the United States

摘要

Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems dominate healthcare industries in many countries. In the United States, the Obama administration promotes EHR through a significant incentive program, so-called Meaningful Use. This paper shares two important lessons that the majority of stakeholders should have learned as of now, i.e. toward its last phase: (1) significant administrative overhead, and (2) understatement of open source technologies, and proposes a modern, lean deployment of EHR systems with a positive use of open source technologies as a better alternative. We believe that this lean deployment should resolve currently confronting financial and administrative issues while sustaining quality healthcare with its suppressed (or lower) cost.