Becker's Healthcare July 12, 2021
Jackie Drees

Family medicine clinicians appear to spend the most time in the EHR each day doing clinical reviews, recording notes, responding to in-basket messages and putting in orders, according to a recent study published in JAMA Network Open.

For the study, researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Stanford University School of Medicine and University of California at San Diego analyzed how primary care physicians in 349 ambulatory healthcare organizations use their Epic EHRs each day.

The researchers measured total daily time actively using the EHR and time spent after hours per clinician. EHR time...

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