Healthcare IT News June 22, 2021
Electronic health records are overloading outpatient docs with info in “disparate files and folders rather than presenting comprehensive, actionable data in a context that gives meaning,” say researchers in a VA-funded study.
A primary care physician may care for 2,500 or more patients in a given year, and many of their patient encounters may last only 20 minutes – much of which is often spent at a computer with a back turned to the patient.
It’s become a truism by now that electronic health records are often viewed askance by primary care docs, many of whom see them as detrimental to the patient encounter. But a new report from U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University details...
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