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. 2020 Jun 23;15(7):949–956. doi: 10.2215/CJN.14191119

Table 2.

Problems with electronic medical record hardware and software functionality at the primary training site

Problems with EMR Functionality at Our Primary Training Site Include (Check All That Apply) Program Directors, n=37 Clinical Faculty, n=94 Fellows, n=67
Screen latency/delay 14 (38%) 38 (40%) 23 (34%)
Frequent unscheduled downtime 6 (16%) 20 (21%) 12 (18%)
Inpatient and outpatient EMR do not communicate 14 (38%) 41 (44%) 18 (27%)
Generalized slowness 12 (32%) 33 (35%) 21 (31%)
Too many click boxes 20 (54%) 59 (63%) 37 (55%)
Too many required fields not relevant to the encounter 20 (54%) 44 (47%) 29 (43%)
Too much focus on billing rather than clinical features of encounter 14 (38%) 49 (52%) 20 (30%)
Difficulty in navigation 13 (35%) 35 (37%) 9 (13%)
Too many alerts 16 (43%) 40 (43%) 27 (40%)
Templates import information that is not useful and/or is incorrect 21 (57%) 44 (47%) 15 (22%)
Clinical decision support package is not useful and/or is incorrect 10 (27%) 28 (30%) 11 (16%)
There are no significant problems with our EMR 5 (14%) 10 (11%) 12 (18%)

EMR, electronic medical record.