EHRs have reshaped clinical practice, streamlining data and standardizing care. But chief medical information officers have told Becker’s many physicians feel buried under its demands: endless screens, alerts and clicks that consume more time than the patient sitting in front of them. “Documentation is only the opening act,” Mark Mabus, MD, chief medical information officer of Springfield, Mo.-based Parkview Health, said. “The real headliner is the nonstop alerts, the inbox pings, the endless clicks and the mental gymnastics that keep clinicians from being present with their patients.”

Across the country, CMIOs are betting that artificial intelligence will ease that burden — and in some cases disrupt health IT on a fundamental level. At Raleigh, N.C.-based WakeMed, Neal Chawla, MD, is pre

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