EHR Intelligence April 7, 2020
Researchers found that clinicians are engaging with over 300 messages in the EHR on a weekly basis, resulting in clinician burnout.
One-third of clinicians experienced high cynicism and over half reported high exhaustion levels that were directly caused by extensive EHR use, according to a study published in the Journal of Informatics in Health and Biomedicine.
The study, which included a survey of 87 clinicians, found that clinicians who had greater than 307 EHR messages per week had 6.17 greater odds of experiencing high-level exhaustion and clinician burnout.
Numerous studies have shown that EHRs are the primary cause of clinician burnout.
“Burnout is ‘a psychological syndrome emerging as a prolonged response to chronic interpersonal stressors on the job’ and is...
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