EHR Intelligence July 18, 2019
Researchers are advocating for advanced team care to reduce the burden of EHR use on clinicians and lessen the likelihood of physician burnout.
Organizing advanced team care and in-room support for physicians may help to reduce the amount of time clinicians spend on EHR use and free up physicians to focus more of their energy on patient care, according to a report in Annals of Family Medicine.
Christine A. Sinsky, MD, from AMA and Thomas Bodenheimer, MD, MPH with the University of California, San Francisco described the benefits of pairing clinicians with two or three highly-trained medical assistants or nurses during care delivery.
“Primary care teams are underpowered,” wrote the duo. “Teams do not maximally redistribute team functions when clinicians...