MedPage Today December 2, 2025
And it didn’t come at the expense of productivity, study finds
Key Takeaways
- Building time for electronic health record (EHR) tasks into a physician’s appointment schedule reduced after-hours and non-workday use of the EHR.
- There was only a small drop in mean relative value units with the intervention.
- Providing dedicated time for asynchronous work may alleviate clinician burnout without compromising revenue.
Building time for electronic health record (EHR) tasks into a physician’s appointment schedule may reduce after-hours work — also known as pajama time — without compromising productivity, an analysis showed.
With the intervention, after-hours and non workday use of the EHR fell by about 25 and 29 minutes per week compared with a control group (P=0.007 and...
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