Electronic health records (EHRs) are not new technology today and the vast majority of clinics (96%) and providers utilize some type of EHR to track patient medical information. For many providers, however, the promise of this new technology didn’t materialize in a way that streamlined patient visits, reduced costs, and improved clinical operations. Using an EHR became more of a burden than a benefit with extensive data entry requirements and clunky interfaces for entering and extracting data. Providers had to devote so much data-entry time to managing the information in an EHR that it had the opposite effect in many ways, taking time away from patient care.

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