How doctors may be spending more time with electronic health records than patients:
found that on average a physician spent 16 minutes and 14 seconds using the EHR for each patient that he or she saw. That’s great news for those who wrote in their medical school applications that they wanted to become physicians so that they can see EHRs. After all, this average time is one minute and 14 seconds longer than your typical 15-minute patient appointment slot.
Now these are all fairly general categories. “Chart review” simply means that the doctor is looking through the electronic medical record for some reason. It doesn’t specify how much time he or she is looking at medical information versus viewing other types of patient information like administrative info versus clicking through the record, wondering “where the bleep do I find such-and-such.”
Plus, this study may actually underestimate the amount of time spent navigating through the EHR. Remember that the 16-plus minutes is only so-called “active time.” When you are using a computer, unless you continuously shake the mouse or rub it on your forehead, you can still be “using” and looking through the EHR without it registering on the software log as “active time.” Not everyone is Terminator-efficient at using an EHR.
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