HealthLeaders Media January 13, 2022
The pandemic has pushed more care online, which in turn has also pushed clinicians back into the EHR, often after hours. That might be a problem.
A new study finds that the shift to virtual care during the pandemic has driven clinicians back to the EHR – with good and bad results.
As reported in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, clinician time spent in the EHR had dropped prior to 2020, but it jumped right back up as COVID-19 took hold, especially after normal business hours. Researchers linked that increase to more time spent reviewing clinical notes and answering messages from colleagues and patients.
Researchers led by A. Jay Holmgren, of the University of California San Francisco’s...
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