SAN DIEGO — Very little content in electronic health record notes is manually entered, the notes are long and redundant, and most are not even looked at, Michael F. Chiang, MD, said at the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus annual meeting.
To demonstrate how much EHR text is manually entered rather than copied from templates and previous chart notes, Chiang and colleagues looked at 2 years of EHR notes of six pediatric ophthalmologists and found that 74% of notes regarding 2,893 new visits was imported from outside sources (Read more...)
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