I Suspect We Are Going To Be Hearing More Complaints Of This Sort In Australia Soon.

This appeared last week:AMA president calls for end to electronic health record abuse By Greg SlabodkinPublished November 14 2018, 7:24am ESTThe nation ’s largest physician group is calling for an end to electronic health record “abuse” which is relegating doctors to the role of data entry clerks and leading to widespread professional burnout. According to the American Medical Association, the problem of physician burnout is impacting about 5 0 percent of practicing doctors, and EHRs are squarely to blame, given that for every hour physicians spend on direct patient care they spend two hours on EHR data entry and other administrative tasks.“Doctors are spending excessive time on data entry, contributing to physician burnout, with impli cations for quality of care,” AMA President Barbara McAneny, MD, told the opening session of the group’s Interim Meeting, held this week in National Harbor, Maryland.In addition, McAneny charged that “much of the EHR technology is dysfunctional” and fails... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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