Medical Economics November 17, 2023
Remote visits are associated with increased documentation time, study finds
While the increased availability of telemedicine in recent years may be convenient for patients, for doctors it has meant spending even more time in EHRs.
That conclusion emerges from a recent study of the association between telemedicine visits, the time doctors spend in the EHR, and patient messaging volume. And it may have important implications for how health systems and other large employers measure EHR burden.
Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) conducted a longitudinal cohort study of 1,052 UCSF ambulatory care physicians to compare time spent in the EHR before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event which brought telemedicine into widespread use.
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