Executive Briefings | November 1, 2017
EHRs & Satisfaction—Of Both Consumers & Clinical Professionals
This caught my attention—primary care physicians spend more than 50% of a workday on documenting in electronic health records (EHRs), amounting to just under 6 hours in an 11.4 hour workday. That was the major findings after researchers studied EHR use by 142 Wisconsin family medicine physicians (see Primary Care Doctors Spend More Than 50% Of Workday On Documenting In The EHR). Some other interesting statistics to keep in mind from this study—about 75.8% of physician time was . . .