Physician Time Spent Using the Electronic Health Record During Outpatient Encounters

Letters6 October 2020Physician Time Spent Using the Electronic Health Record During Outpatient EncountersJ. Marc Overhage, MD, PhD and David McCallie, MDJ. Marc Overhage, MD, PhDThe Overhage Group, Indianapolis, Indiana (J.M.O.) and David McCallie, MDCerner Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri (D.M.)Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/L20-0278 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail IN RESPONSE:We appreciate the thoughtful comments and suggestions offered by readers in response to our article describing time spent using the EHR among adult nonsurgical physicians.Dr. Weiser asks that we, as a society, place more value on cognitive services or at least increase the payment per encounter to accommodate the increased demand for physician time. We were not able to directly address the value or appropriateness of the amount of time that physicians invest when using their EHR to care for patients but do believe that the objective, national-level data that our study provides are critical to inform ...References1. Rucker DW. Using telephony data to facilitate discovery of clinical workflows. Appl Clin Inform. 2017;8:381-395. [PMID: 28421225] doi:10.4338/ACI-2016-11-RA-0191 CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. Adler-Milstein J, Chen Y, Hribar M, et al. Advancing common approaches to working with EHR log data [Abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2019 American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, Washington, DC, 16–20 November 2019. American Medical Informatics Association. 2019:31-3. Google Scholar Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: The Overhage Group, Indianapolis, Indiana (J.M.O.)Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri (D.M.)Disclosures: Disclosures can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M18-3684. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee AlsoPhysician Time Spent Using the Electronic Health Record During Outpatient Encounters J. Marc Overhage and David McCallie Jr. Physician Time Spent Using the Electronic Health Record During Outpatient Encounters Kiyofumi Oya , Yuta Ishiyama , and Kashiwagi Hideyuki Physician Time Spent Using the Electronic Health Record During Outpatient Encounters Abigail Zuger Physician Time Spent Using the Electronic Health Record During Outpatient Encounters John Weiser Physician Time Spent Using the Electronic Health Record During Outpatient Encounters Joseph A. Stankaitis Metrics Cited byDepartment-focused electronic health record thrive trainingVisual Analytics Dashboard Promises to Improve Hypertension Guideline ImplementationAssociation Between Proficiency and Efficiency in Electronic Health Records Among Pediatricians at a Major Academic Health SystemEnabling a learning healthcare system with automated computer protocols that produce replicable and personalized clinician actions 6 October 2020Volume 173, Issue 7Page: 594-595KeywordsAlgorithmsCurrent procedural terminologyDisclosureElectronic medical recordsForecastingOutpatientsPatientsReproducibility ePublished: 6 October 2020 Issue Published: 6 October 2020 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 2020 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...