Every failed EMR rollout has the same post-mortem: the software had every feature, and the doctors still wrote on paper. Adoption is a speed problem — if the digital note takes longer than the paper one, paper wins.
What works: speciality templates that pre-fill 80% of a routine note, favourite-drug lists per doctor, and order sets for common conditions. A cardiologist should complete a follow-up note in four taps.
Measure adoption weekly per doctor, celebrate the leaders, and sit with the laggards to tune their templates. Within a quarter, the record becomes something clinicians defend rather than tolerate.