How are medical students using the Electronic Health Record (EHR)?: An analysis of EHR use on an inpatient medicine rotation.

ABSTRACT: Physicians currently spend as much as half of their day in front of the computer. The Electronic Health Record (EHR) has been associated with declining bedside skills and physician burnout. Medical student EHR use has not been well studied or characterized. However, student responsibilities for EHR documentation will likely increase as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) most recent provisions now allow student notes for billing which will likely increase the role of medical student use of the EHR over time. To gain a better understanding of how medical students use the EHR at our institution, we retrospectively analyzed 6,692,994 EHR interactions from 49 third-year clerkship medical students and their supervising physicians assigned to the inpatient medicine ward rotation

SUBMITTER: Chi J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6697335 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature