IT should adapt to clinician

From Dr. David M. Polaner of Children's Hospital in Denver:

The primary focus of virtually every computerized medical record system is documentation, meeting Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, third-party payer, medico-legal and regulatory stipulations. Only the most cursory and sophomoric thought is given to information and how to organize and present it to the clinician in a manner so that they can leverage that information to improve patient care. The inability to look simultaneously at multivariate, multimodal data in multiple windows to correlate and integrate information reveals an utter lack of understanding as to what physicians actually do when confronted with a clinical problem.... Until imaginative software developers work in tandem with computer-savvy clinicians and experts in human-machine interface design I fear the situation will get rapidly worse.

Here in Information Systems, we are dedicated to solving problems, and we are committed to working closely with all clinicians to fully understand the problems they face. We encourage clinicians in turn to proactively engage with us to fully define the problem space so that effective solutions are possible.