The role of electronic health records in clinical reasoning
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-1-2018
Originally Published In
Annals of the New York Academy of the Sciences
Volume Number
1434
Issue Number
1
Page Numbers
109-114
Abstract
Electronic health records (eHRs) play an increasingly important role in documentation and exchange of information in multi‐and interdisciplinary patient care. Although eHRs are associated with mixed evidence in terms of effectiveness, they are undeniably the health record form of the future. This poses several learning opportunities and challenges for medical education. This review aims to connect the concept of eHRs to key competencies of physicians and elaborates current learning science perspectives on diagnostic and clinical reasoning based on a theoretical framework of scientific reasoning and argumentation. It concludes with an integrative vision of the use of eHRs, and the special role of the patient, for teaching and learning in medicine.
