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Study quantifies significant time spent documenting in EHRs
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Like in other ophthalmic specialties, a significant amount of the pediatric ophthalmologist’s time is spent documenting in electronic health records, perhaps detrimentally so, according to a study presented here.“There’s been a lot of anecdotal and some published evidence showing that there may be a negative impact of EHRs on efficiency by ophthalmologists,” Michael F. Chiang, MD, said at the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus meeting.