Two-thirds of healthcare organizations have increased staff to boost EHR adoption, according to a study by Nuance Communications and HIMSS Analytics to be released next week at the 2017 HIMSS Conference & Exhibition.
But increasing staff is not sustainable for these organizations, said Brenda Hodge, senior vice president of healthcare marketing at Nuance Communications, a clinician information systems vendor. What’s more, 77 percent of the organizations plan to conduct more training to increase EHR adoption, and 67 percent plan to use different technologies to enhance the EHR experience, including such options as mobility tools, speech recognition at the point of care, and computer-assisted physician documentation, according to the study.
