{"id":20385,"date":"2020-08-24T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=20385"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:49","slug":"electronic-health-records-more-demands-same-amount-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/24\/electronic-health-records-more-demands-same-amount-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronic health records: More demands, same amount of time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Doctor_with_clock_for_a_head-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"Man in lab coat with stethoscope holds clock in front of his face.\" class=\"wp-image-20387\"\/><figcaption>(MHealth Lab\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A team of researchers from U-M recently  published a paper in the\u00a0<em>Journal of General Internal Medicine<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/labblog.uofmhealth.org\/rounds\/primary-care-at-a-crossroads-experts-call-for-change\">documenting electronic medical record time demands\u00a0faced by general internists at Michigan Medicine<\/a>. The findings build on other studies showing that primary care providers nationwide face the highest number of incoming tasks on electronic health records systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lead author\u00a0<strong>Laurence McMahon<\/strong>, chief of\u00a0general medicine\u00a0at U-M, notes that the burden has driven many primary care providers across the country to cut back their clinical schedule, just to make their work hours manageable. \u201cFully 70% of Michigan Medicine\u2019s general medicine faculty now work \u2018part-time\u2019, because it is the only way they can manage the explosion in work \u2013 in essence they are taking a pay cut in order to deal with what has become a full-time body of work,\u201d says McMahon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers from U-M recently published a paper in the\u00a0Journal of General Internal Medicine\u00a0documenting electronic medical record time demands\u00a0faced by general internists at Michigan Medicine. The findings build on other studies showing that primary care providers nationwide face the highest number of incoming tasks on electronic health records systems. Lead author\u00a0Laurence McMahon, chief of\u00a0general medicine\u00a0at U-M,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/24\/electronic-health-records-more-demands-same-amount-of-time\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[228,51,402,130],"class_list":["post-20385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-ehr","tag-medical","tag-michigan-medicine","tag-research"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Doctor_with_clock_for_a_head-e1599529580234.jpg",747,420,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Doctor_with_clock_for_a_head-200x112.jpg",200,112,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Doctor_with_clock_for_a_head-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Doctor_with_clock_for_a_head-768x432.jpg",665,374,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Doctor_with_clock_for_a_head-700x394.jpg",600,338,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Doctor_with_clock_for_a_head-e1599529580234.jpg",747,420,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Doctor_with_clock_for_a_head-e1599529580234.jpg",747,420,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Doctor_with_clock_for_a_head-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Doctor_with_clock_for_a_head-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Doctor_with_clock_for_a_head-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Doctor_with_clock_for_a_head-665x374.jpg",665,374,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Doctor_with_clock_for_a_head-e1599529580234.jpg",400,225,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A team of researchers from U-M recently published a paper in the\u00a0Journal of General Internal Medicine\u00a0documenting electronic medical record time demands\u00a0faced by general internists at Michigan Medicine. The findings build on other studies showing that primary care providers nationwide face the highest number of incoming tasks on electronic health records systems. 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