Many others feel the same way, hence the low conversion rate:
I’d estimate (conservatively) that data entry alone would require five to six minutes per patient, and we probably see 25-30 patients a day. That’s about two to three hours of preliminary data entry DAILY, with zero productivity. Multiply that by five days and fifty-two weeks of managing the office that’s a minimum of 520 hours and a maximum of 780 hours of data entry, which doesn’t get reimbursed.
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I just wish that for the hospitals using computer charting, they would either require ALL docs to use the computer charting or go back to the paper chart. Because this creates a nightmare for nurses who have part of a patient’s orders written in one place, and part in another – it’s a problem because orders can be missed. In addition, it often means one doc doesn’t know what the other doc is doing and that creates other problems.
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