Healthcare IT News July 7, 2023
The study of 1.7 billion clinical notes over a three-year period found an increase in the use of digital tools and copy/paste functionality correlated with longer notes as well as a decrease in the average time spent writing notes.
A dual team study of notes written by 166,318 outpatient providers in the U.S. from May 2020 to April 2023 published by Epic Research on Thursday examined how coding requirements and documentation tools have influenced clinical documentation length.
WHY IT MATTERS
The 2021 changes to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ evaluation and management CPT billing codes aimed to reduce the administrative documentation burden on providers, Epic Research said in a new report.
To understand if the changes had an...
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