Sticking results from this descriptive study – on an average physicians are spending 16 minutes per encounter working with electronic health record. Now you know why your physicians are spending little time with you and always appear in a hurry. They are still very busy, reviewing the chart, ordering tests, and documenting the encounter. Machine has taken over the space between a doctor and a patient.
Obviously, very few (likely none) physicians enjoy spending time away from their patients. However, the regulatory burdens, some national mandates,some state mandates, some regulatory body mandates, and some institutional mandates require increasing documentation. All this increased documentation requirement has been placed without providing any additional time to a physician. As a result, physicians decreased the only discrete time they had – time with the patient.
Most of these mandates are there to make sure that the quality of care delivered is adequate. However, these mandates have worsened physician burnout and are perhaps not improving overall care except only those processes that are being measured.
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