A new study showed that primary care physicians who had greater documentation support from staff spent less daily time in the electronic health record.
Impressive.
Also, it was found that those people who are divorced usually don’t have spouses. Oh, and salt-free diets have less sodium in them.
Here’s the summary:
A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association sought to examine the relationship between electronic health record proficiency tools and time spent interacting with the EHR.
Researchers found that only one proficiency tool was associated with reduced time spent in the EHR.
However, they also found that primary care physicians who had greater support from their care team in writing notes spent less time in documentation-specific activities and less total time in the record per day.
“These findings suggest that PCPs may experience reductions in EHR-related burden and documentation burden by decentralizing documentation responsibilities,” wrote the research team.
Forget everything you just read. This is dogma. It’s all bullshit. There has NEVER been a reason to do anything more than a SOAP note. All the extra time in the EHR is for metrics and to make others more money selling your data.
STOP.
LEAVE THE SYSTEM.
Do DPC.
And get an EHR that does SOAP notes. You don’t need to pay a support team.