Healthcare IT News May 2, 2024
A new JAMA study from MedStar Health shows how the increased integration of virtual care models is exacerbating electronic health record documentation burden for clinicians.
While telehealth alone doesn’t appear to add significantly to a primary care physician’s workload, mixing modalities – telehealth and in-person hybrid care environments – led to a 6% increase in time spent with documentary and EHR work, new research shows.
WHY IT MATTERS
These were among the results of an April study by MedStar Health Research Institute and Georgetown University School of Medicine published in JAMA Network Open, which focused on how hybrid care environments impact the administrative duties of PCPs.
The research team examined the percentage of daily visits via telehealth across five levels...
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