mHealth Intelligence November 1, 2023
A new study found that growing pandemic-era telehealth use increased the time physicians spent documenting visits in the EHR.
Telehealth use during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with an increase in the time physicians spent working in the EHR, though this work was largely related to documenting visits rather than messaging patients, new research shows.
The study published in JAMA Internal Medicine examined the correlation between telehealth use and time spent working in the EHR and patient messaging among ambulatory physicians before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Researchers studied the weekly EHR metadata of physicians at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Health. The physicians included in the study provided ambulatory care across 11 specialties, including...
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