MGMA Confirms Productivity Loss with Government’s EMR Program
From Evan Steele’s SRSoft blog (worth checking out):
“What struck me at last week’s annual meeting of HIMSS (Health Information and Management Systems Society) was the conspicuous absence of conversation about the effect of the ARRA legislation on physician productivity—there was hardly a mention of the subject throughout the conference. Jeffrey Belden, M.D., of the HIMSS Usability Taskforce, did point out that documenting patient exams in an EMR takes 10 times as long as documenting by dictation, but offered no solution to that problem. Admittedly, the audience contained few, if any, physicians. However, once again, it struck me that physician productivity was the elephant in the room—the topic that no one was discussing, even though physicians are the very people upon whom the success of the program is so dependent.”
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