Urology Times April 28, 2022
Findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine indicated that American physicians are satisfied with the technology of EHRs but resent the amount of documentation time EHRs require for billing purposes.
Those were among the results of an analysis of responses to the 2019 National Electronic Health Records survey from 1524 office-based physicians in primary care, surgical and medical specialties. The findings represented more than 300,000 physicians nationwide.
Overall, 64% of respondents said they were satisfied with their EHR, while 28% were dissatisfied and 8% were neutral. Similarly, 64.5% said EHR documentation is easy, versus 35.5% who found it difficult. The highest level of overall satisfaction—67%—was among primary care doctors, while surgeons gave the highest marks for ease of documentation at 67.4%.
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