Nurses Give EHR Usability an 'F' in New Study

The report also finds that poor electronic health record user-experience is associated with nurse burnout.

A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association found that more favorable electronic health record usability scores are associated with lower odds of burnout – and those usability scores have tanked.

Researchers found that among 1,285 nurses who responded to a November 2017 survey about usability and burnout the mean nurse-rated EHR usability score was 57.6.

The research team categorized this with a grade of "F."

"To our knowledge, this is the first study to measure nurses’ perceptions of EHR-usability nationally using a standardized metric," wrote the researchers.

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