ONC Challenge: Make EHRs More Readable

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has a new challenge for software developers: ONC is calling on graphic designers to figure out ways to make electronic health records more “readable.”The challenge is not only to make an EHR more readable for consumers, but downloadable, according to an ONC blog posting. “Graphic designers have the unique ability to take something that exists, transform it, and make it more valuable and usable,” says blogger Ryan Panchadsaram, a presidential innovation fellow at ONC. “By making a patient record more usable, designers can help to prevent medical errors, empower patients to

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