Healthcare IT News November 8, 2023
Informatics researchers from UCSF found that, both during and outside of scheduled hours, an uptick in telehealth use required ambulatory physicians to spend more time working in the electronic health record.
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network compared patient messaging among ambulatory physicians before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, finding they were mostly documenting visits and not messaging patients.
WHY IT MATTERS
The study proposed that if telemedicine expansion indicates physicians spending more overall time in EHRs, health systems and policymakers may need to alter productivity expectations and their reimbursement policies.
The researchers from the Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation in the Department of Medicine at the...
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