Saving Time for Patient Care by Optimizing Physician Note Templates: A Pilot Study.

ABSTRACT: Background: At times, electronic medical records (EMRs) have proven to be less than optimal, causing longer hours behind computers, shorter time with patients, suboptimal patient safety, provider dissatisfaction, and physician burnout. These concerning healthcare issues can be positively affected by optimizing EMR usability, which in turn would lead to substantial benefits to healthcare professionals such as increased healthcare professional productivity, efficiency, quality, and accuracy. Documentation issues, such as non-standardization of physician note templates and tedious, time-consuming notes in our mother-baby unit (MBU), were discussed during meetings with stakeholders in the MBU and our hospital's EMR analysts. Objective: The objective of this study was to assess ph

SUBMITTER: Alissa R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8792616 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature