7 in 10 doctors report HIT-related stress

Dive Brief:

• Physician burnout has long been tied to increasing administrative burdens, including use of EHRs. A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association lends further weight to back up those claims.
• The researchers surveyed all 4,197 practicing physicians in Rhode Island in 2017 to assess levels of self-reported burnout. HIT-related stress was defined as having one of the following: little time for documentation, moderate to excessive at-home time spent on EHRs and belief that EHRs are a daily source of frustration.
• Of the 91% of EHR users who responded to the survey, 70% reported HIT–related stress, with primary care doctors being hardest hit.

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