Why doctors hate their computers. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Why doctors hate their computers. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Newspaper/Magazine Article
 
• Published November 2018

Why doctors hate their computers.

Gawande A. New Yorker. November 12, 2018.

In this magazine article, Atul Gawande describes a range of frustrations physicians experience as digitization becomes more widespread in health care. He elaborates upon several elements of electronic health record use that can degrade care processes and create conditions for errors, such as burnout, lack of patient-centeredness, and alert fatigue.

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