Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinician ambulatory electronic health record use.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The COVID-19 pandemic changed clinician electronic health record (EHR) work in a multitude of ways. To evaluate how, we measure ambulatory clinician EHR use in the United States throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Materials and methods

We use EHR meta-data from ambulatory care clinicians in 366 health systems using the Epic EHR system in the United States from December 2019 to December 2020. We used descriptive statistics for clinician EHR use including active-use time across clinical activities, time after-hours, and messages received. Multivariable regression to evaluate total and after-hours EHR work adjusting for daily volume and organizational characteristics, and to evaluate the association between messages and EHR time.

Results

Clinician time spent in t

SUBMITTER: Holmgren AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8689796 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature