Medical Economics February 18, 2021
Keith A. Reynolds

Participants say that between 11 percent and 60 percent of their burnout is tied to their EHR.

Electronic health record (EHR) systems are continuing to cause physician burnout, but the sources are different than what was anticipated more than a decade ago.

A report from the American Medical Informatics Association (AIMA) details a survey they performed at their 2020 annual meeting to assess whether the organization’s 2009 predictions on the burnout impact of the HITECH Act being enacted. They found that the association most underestimated the decrease in data quality due to copy/paste behaviors, while they most overestimated the impact that false positives from abuse and fraud detection algorithms would harm physicians and/or patients.

All of the participants said...

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