Daniel,
In you conversational non-announcement, you mention that
Studies have shown approximately a 20-30% loss of physician efficiency during visits with the use of EHR software; a design goal of this project is to have the opposite effect. A time-motion study of physician work during office visits is an important feature of this project.
That's VERY interesting - I have heard about this before, but I have not seen any of the actual studies/papers showing 20-30% loss of efficiency. (It's largely in line with my personal observations, and it largely explain why EHRs in resource poor settings usually are utter failures - you just don't have the 20-30% extra time if you are seeing 60-70 patients per day to begin with).
Can you provide any direct references (or even better URLs) to such studies?
Best regards Calle
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