Thrisha Gogineni is a student intern. James G. Kahn is a health policy professor. Sigal Maya is a research associate.
Doctors often find the electronic health record (EHR) time-consuming and annoying. However, quantitative estimates of physicians’ time on EHR tasks are sparse and not collated. We assembled evidence on hours dedicated to the EHR each day by physicians. The result is impressive – 4.5 hours.
A little background: EHR systems started in the late 1960s. The federal government implemented VistA in the 1970s in the Department of Veteran …
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