Essential Electronic Health Record Reforms for This Decade

This Viewpoint posits suggestions to reform electronic health records (EHRs), including use of unique personal safety identifiers, reduction of administrative and regulatory content from clinical time, inclusion of patient-entered information into the EHR, and reinvention of the clinical note.

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This Viewpoint suggests several reforms for electronic health records (EHRs), such as the use of unique personal safety identifiers, reducing administrative and regulatory content during clinical time, incorporating patient-entered information into the EHR, and reimagining the clinical note.