Urology Times June 14, 2022
An analysis published in JAMA Network Open suggests that female physicians spend more time working on electronic health records (EHR) than their male counterparts, in the office and out.1
Researchers studied a potential gender gap between female and male physicians using EHR. The electronic records have positive effects, but also have been associated with physician burnout, said the research letter, “Gender Differences in Time Spent on Documentation and the Electronic Health Record in a Large Ambulatory Network,” published in the journal JAMA Network Open.
Prior work has demonstrated higher rates of burnout among women physicians, so the researchers examined EHR use at a large, New England ambulatory practice network from February 2018 to December 2019.
The network had 124 female...
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