Medscape October 14, 2021
While the use of EHRs has been associated with physician burnout, a key factor in physicians leaving their jobs, a new JAMA study finds that less use of these systems is correlated with the turnover of employed doctors in a large New England health system.
The study’s purpose was to determine whether vendor-derived EHR data could be used to understand and explain physician turnover. The researchers, who analyzed data for 314 ambulatory care doctors from March 2018 to February 2020, were able to answer that question in the affirmative. But they were unable to explain the counterintuitive study findings.
The study used five EHR-based measures: physicians’ total EHR time, work outside of scheduled clinic hours, encounter note documentation time, time...