Becker's Healthcare April 4, 2017
A study in Health Affairs investigated how physicians split their time between patient visits and computer tasks.
The researchers — led by Ming Tai-Seale, PhD, associate director of the Mountain View, Calif.-based Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute — identified 471 primary care physicians who collectively worked on 31 million EHR transactions between 2011 and 2014. The researchers used the EHRs’ time stamp functionality to examine how physicians allocated their time.
Over time, EHR logs showed a decline in physician time...
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