Becker's Healthcare June 27, 2024
Wenatchee, Wash.-based Confluence Health has reduced EHR time for primary care physicians by 34 minutes per day by implementing both technological and cultural changes, according to an American Medical Association article.
The two-hospital system’s family physicians and internists also spend about 17% less time in the EHR and 67% less “pajama time,” or after-hours work in the EHR, than the national averages, wrote C. Becket Mahnke, MD, chief medical information officer of Confluence Health. He said there’s “no doubt” this decrease in documentation burden helped cut family physician burnout at the health system from 41% to 26% in its most recent survey.
“While we certainly don’t have a magic solution to eliminate the universal challenges of EHR burden, we have...
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