{"id":26304,"date":"2017-04-05T19:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T19:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/anxiety\/26304\/"},"modified":"2017-04-05T19:00:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T19:00:59","slug":"physicians-spend-50-of-their-day-on-desktop-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/26304","title":{"rendered":"Physicians invest 50percent of these time on \u2018desktop medication\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\r\n<p><p>From Becker’s:<\/p>\r\n<p>A study in health matters investigated how health practitioners separate their particular time passed between diligent visits and computer system system jobs.<\/p>\r\n<p>The researchers \u2014 led by Ming Tai-Seale, PhD, associate manager related to mountain see, Calif.-based Palo Alto Medical Foundation analysis Institute \u2014 identified 471 major care health practitioners whom collectively done 31 million EHR discounts between 2011 and 2014. The researchers used the EHRs’ time stamp functionality to examine how health practitioners allocated their particular time.<\/p>\r\n<p>Over time, EHR logs unveiled a fall in doctor time allocated to face-to-face visits with customers and a rise with time utilized on “desktop medicine,” which include chatting with clients via diligent portal, answering consumers’ on line requirements, delivering staff emails and reviewing test results. Ordinarily, physicians invested 3.08 hours on company visits each day and 3.17 hours on desktop computer medicine daily.<\/p>\r\n<br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/acutecareinc.wordpress.com\/23514\/\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=acutecareinc.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2103256&#038;post=23514&#038;subd=acutecareinc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><p>From Becker’s:<\/p>\n<p>A study in Health Affairs investigated how physicians split their time between patient visits and computer tasks.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers \u2014 led by Ming Tai-Seale, PhD, associate director of the Mountain View, Calif.-based Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute \u2014 identified 471 primary care physicians who collectively worked on 31 million EHR transactions between 2011 and 2014. The researchers used the EHRs’ time stamp functionality to examine how physicians allocated their time.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, EHR logs showed a decline in physician time spent on face-to-face visits with patients and an increase in time spent on “desktop medicine,” which includes communicating with patients via patient portal, responding to patients’ online requests, sending staff messages and reviewing test results. On average, physicians spent 3.08 hours on office visits each day and 3.17 hours on desktop medicine each day.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/acutecareinc.wordpress.com\/23514\/\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=acutecareinc.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2103256&#038;post=23514&#038;subd=acutecareinc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}