Chief Healthcare Executive September 10, 2021
Craig Newman, the chief strategy officer at HealthChannels for ScribeAmerica, discusses the amount of time that physicians, nurses, and scribes spend on administrative work and how the pandemic has exacerbated the need for things to change.
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How much of a physician’s day is spent doing administrative work and how does this time allocation impact the quality of care that patients receive?
Newman: As you know, there’s about a million active physicians throughout the country working across the care continuum. And that may range depending on which care environment they’re in—emergency medicine, the inpatient setting, urgent care, or the clinic-based environment. Or sometimes we think about home care. On average, most physicians are spending, just to give you a sense...
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