EHRs need overhaul to limit time spent on them

NEW ORLEANS — Electronic health records need to meet clinical needs, not administrative ones, to prevent physicians from spending too much on the technology, according to a presenter at the American College of Physicians Internal Medicine Meeting.
“It’s particularly worrisome that there’s a great deal of dissatisfaction among physicians regarding EHRs, and how much time they spend on them,” Elmer V. Bernstam, MD, associate dean for research at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, told Healio Family Medicine.
“There are many reasons for

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