Medical Economics February 25, 2020
Physicians spend an average of 16 minutes 14 seconds using electronic health record (EHR) software per patient encounter, according to a study in Annals of Internal Medicine.
The study looked at about 100 million patient encounters with about 155,000 doctors all using the same EHR software and found that only 11 percent of the time a physician spends on EHR a day is after hours. Chart review amounted to 33 percent of the time physicians spent with the software, while documentation made up 24 percent, and ordering took up another 17 percent.
The study found that each specialty spent far less time messaging and coordinating care than other functions of the software.
The time spent on EHR during a day...
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