Healthcare IT News February 13, 2023
ONC found some progress has been made in using EHR audit log data to identify clinicians in need of training and support and areas to improve workflows.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information found that hospitals’ access and analysis of documentation data in electronic health records has increased over the past five years, but gaps in access and use remain for some hospitals.
WHY IT MATTERS
Data from EHRs can track the time clinicians spend documenting and carrying out certain tasks. To measure physician burden on a national scale, ONC analyzed four waves of a nationally representative survey of U.S. non-federal acute care hospitals.
Published in January, in the special health IT issue of the American Journal of...