Becker's Healthcare July 15, 2019
EHRs have helped improve several inefficiencies associated with paper documentation; however, there is still much room for advancement in terms of the EHR revolution, according to Providence St. Joseph Health Chief Clinical Officer Amy Compton Phillips, MD.
In a blog post for the Renton, Wash.-based health system’s website, Dr. Phillips detailed issues with EHRs, including certain studies’ results that clinicians can spend between 30 percent and 50 percent of their time interacting with a computer instead of patients.
“…With the technology available today it shouldn’t be so difficult to input and access [medical] information,” Dr. Phillips wrote. “It shouldn’t be a stressor for caregivers that could inhibit their ability to see more of their existing patients or take on new...
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