Abstract
Thank you for your letter and astute insights. I want to first say that I concur with most of your thoughts and conclusions, particularly your insights about how little payoff there has been for nurses when it comes to the electronic health record (EHR). I also want to acknowledge that my column did not applaud the many physicians who work tirelessly to leverage EHR as a means of promoting safe, efficient, standardized, and quality care. Letter to the EditorJournal of PeriAnesthesia NursingVol. 29Issue 1PreviewI am writing to express my disappointment in an article presented in the Information and Health Informatics Technology section of the October issue of Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing.1 The author, Matthew Byrne, presents a seething diatribe on physicians' power, privilege, and reluctance to embrace the electronic health care record. He enthusiastically predicts the impending obsolescence of physicians in the digital world of health care informatics. Might nursing leaders' efforts be more fruitfully focused on improving the electronic health record (EHR) for everyone's benefit—both users (physicians and nurses) and patients? I would like to present a different perspective, a sort of “boots on the ground” viewpoint of a nurse practicing in the perioperative setting who both embraces and loathes EHR. Full-Text PDF
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