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Over the last 5 years, stimulated by the changing healthcare environment and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Meaningful Use (MU) Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive program, EHR adoption has increased remarkably, and there is early evidence that such adoption has resulted in healthcare safety and quality benefits. 1, 2 However, with this broad adoption, many clinicians are voicing concerns that EHR use has had unintended clinical consequences, including reduced time for patient-clinician interaction, 3 new and burdensome data entry tasks being transferred to front-line clinicians, 4, 5 and lengthened clinician workdays. 6–8 Additionally, interoperability between different EHR systems has languished despite large efforts towards that goal. 9, 10 These challenges are contributing to physicians’ decreased satisfaction with their work lives. 11–13 In …