Paul Roemer, HealthSystemCIO
“With EHRs in and going in, here is my take on what we may be facing. To keep the conversation as simple as possible, let us focus just on the EHR and — for the purpose of this discussion — set aside the discussion of Meaningful Use, Certification, and interoperability.
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Robert Rowley, KevinMD
“One of the big concerns about implementing an electronic health record (EHR) into a medical practice is the fear that it will slow you down. In fact, after cost, usability (and its effect on productivity) is the second-biggest perceived barrier to EHR adoption.
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Cardiovascular Business
“Tsang shared a personal anecdote during his days as the CMO at the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center in New York City on the adoption of an EHR. “It wasn’t an easy journey during the go-live period,” he admitted. With 75 providers at the organization whose salaries depended on productivity and who needed 4,000 visits a year, it was tough when their productivity dropped about 25 percent in the first month.
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Evan Steele, EMR Straight Talk
“The purpose of automation is to increase efficiency and productivity. Every industry that has undergone the transformation from paper to digital has realized these benefits immediately . . . every industry, that is, except the EHR industry. Why is this acceptable?
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Craig Byer, Health IT Pulse
“A study conducted by the Medical Group Management Association suggests that a loss of productivity is the biggest concern among doctors who are switching from paper health records to electronic health records (EHRs). Some 4,588 practices representing approximately 120,000 physicians completed the online survey.
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Paul Roemer, Healthcare IT Strategy
“The following are the comments I posted to Gienna’s article, http://ow.ly/3FWTP.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“A lot of studies have recently come out looking at productivity declines that are typical following the implementation of EMRs. Everyone expects the decrease in productivity because of the disruption in workflow.
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Mary Stevens, CMIO
“One size won’t fit all providers when it comes to federal support for EHR adoption, but some aspects of the current Regional Extension Center (REC) program could use more consistency, said Lisa Levine, MPH, vice president of operations at Family Health Center of Worcester, a federally qualified health center based in Worcester, Mass.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“If it’s been many months since you bought your electronic medical records system and you’re still seeing fewer patients as you did before you got it, the problem might not be you — it might be your EMR.
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Cheriff AD et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 49(7)
Purpose
The impact of the ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) on physician productivity is poorly understood. Fear of productivity loss remains a major concern for practitioners and health care delivery organizations and inhibits system adoption. This study describes the changes in physician productivity after the implementation of a commercially available ambulatory EHR system in a large academic multi-specialty physician group.
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