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  • Electronic health record system increases clinicians' cognitive workload, study finds

    Mar 22, 2021 4:00 pm by Sharita ForrestResearch
    Co-authors of the study included Daniel G. Morrow, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Karen Dunn Lopez, the director of the Center for Nursing Classification and Clinical Effectiveness at the University of Iowa. Photos by L. Brian Stauffer and Deb Kwiatt

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    • Co-authors of the study included Daniel G. Morrow, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Karen Dunn Lopez, the director of the Center for Nursing Classification and Clinical Effectiveness at the University of Iowa. Photos by L. Brian Stauffer and Deb Kwiatt

    Clinicians’ cognitive workloads more than doubled during the first six months after a new electronic health records system was implemented at two of Carle Health System’s urgent care clinics.