tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2015 Issue 21

Electronic Health Records: Doctors' Dissatisfaction with EHR Issues Holds Lessons for You

Surprisingly, EHRs adding to difficulties instead of reducing workload, says study. A new study has made some astonishing revelations regarding how the transition to electronic health records (EHRs) actually added to costs without decreasing workloads or improving efficiency. The American Medical Association (AMA) and AmericanEHR Partners performed a joint study asking physicians about how satisfied they are with their EHR systems, and the results were surprising. Compared to doctors’ responses to similar questions in 2011, “more physicians are reporting being dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with their EHR system,” AmericanEHR said in an Aug. 10 summary of the...

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