These EHR systems sound difficult and time-consuming to use. If they can't/won't be directly improved any time soon, why don't nurses and doctors have data entry specialist partners to do the clicking and typing? Why not take some people with a 2-year medical data entry certification and train them to use $INSTITUTION's customized EHR system? It seems crazy to make people who are qualified to actually diagnose and treat patients spend half their time on clerical work using cumbersome software.

Maybe people are worried that EHR quality would suffer if people with fewer credentials entered the data. According to the article EHR systems are already full of garbage data entered by physicians. Does it actually get worse if data entry specialists do the entry instead? This appears to be readily testable. You can have them do it in parallel with the physicians who enter their own EHR data now, and compare after a year.