JMIR Publications

ABSTRACT

Clinicians spend a significant part of their workday reviewing and writing electronic medical notes. Here we describe how the current, widely accepted paradigm for electronic medical notes represents a poor organizational framework for both the individual clinician and the broader medical team. As described in our commentary, refinement of electronic medical notes can be completed by reconceptualizing charts as a dynamic workspace, having collaborative workspaces, and a version system history. This revised framework will enable a higher-level assessment of the current state of the patent, simultaneously saving clinicians substantial time on both the data input and retrieval sides. Collectively, this approach has the potential to drastically improve health care effectiveness and efficiency.