MedCity News February 11, 2021
We cannot earn patients’ trust and respect if we are tethered to a computer in the exam room, navigating the EHR concurrent to a visit or otherwise in a hurry to finish so we can return to our office where data entry to the EHR awaits us.
I am a physician married to a physician, and for years, our evenings consisted of putting the kids to bed, then sitting next to each other, laptops open, finishing our charting. If you are a physician, you likely know the drill. There is even a name for it: “pajama time” in the EHR, and it usually consumes two or more hours.
This scenario, which plays out in physicians’ homes all across the country,...