Medscape January 25, 2024
If you feel like the day doesn’t hold enough hours for you to get your work done, you’re right: A new study found primary care physicians (PCPs) now need 27 hours a day to complete their clinical and nonclinical tasks — thanks in large part to the ever-growing burden of electronic health records (EHRs).
Investigators followed 141 academic PCPs between May 2019 and March 2023 and found they spent considerably more time engaging in EHR tasks during the final year of the study than in the pre-pandemic period. EHR time increased by over 8% on days with scheduled appointments and almost 20% on days without scheduled appointments.
“Physicians spend an unsustainable amount of time on EHR-based work, and that amount...
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