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• Main Author: Robbins RA
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Arizona Thoracic Society 2016-11-01
• Series: Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care
• Subjects: EHR; electonic; healthcare; record; medical; documentation; fee; physician; time; paper work
• Online Access: http://www.swjpcc.com/editorial/2016/11/28/mitigating-the-life-sucking-power-of-the-electronic-health-r.html

No abstract available. Article truncated at 150 words. An article in PulmCCM discussed “life-sucking” electronic health care records (EHR) (1). It is in turn based on an article in the Annals of Internal Medicine on the work time spent by physicians (2). The latter, funded by the American Medical Association, observed 57 physicians in internal medicine, family medicine, cardiology, and orthopedics over hundreds of hours. The study revealed that physicians spend almost two hours working on their electronic health record for every one hour of face-to-face patient time. Interestingly, physicians who used a documentation assistant or dictation spent more time with patients (31 and 44%) compared to those with no documentation support (23%). The PulmCCM goes on to list some of the reasons that the EHR requires so much time: ●The best and brightest minds in software design don't go to work for Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, and whoever the other ones are. ●There's a high barrier …