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With wider use of electronic health records (EHRs), physicians increasingly receive notifications via EHR-based inboxes (eg, Epic's In-Basket and General Electric Centricity's Documents). Examples of types of notifications include test results, responses to referrals, requests for medication refills, and messages from physicians and other health care professionals. 4] Furthermore, the additional workload to read and process these messages remains uncompensated in an environment of reduced reimbursements for office-based care. Conversely, EHRs make it easier to measure the amount of information received. We quantified the notifications that physicians received via inboxes of commercial EHRs to estimate their burden.
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