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EMR not Boosting Productivity? Could Be a Mismatch between System and Specialty
Jan 17, 2011 Hemant Bhargava Electronic Medical Records and Physician Productivity: Evidence from Panel Data Analysis American Marketing Association News
Professor Hemant Bhargava says the practice he and others researched adopted an EMR system that made tasks associated with treating sick patients — such as reviewing radiological images, notes from previous visits and charts of test data — more efficient. But tasks associated with well visits, such as data entry, were made more cumbersome and time-consuming for physicians who were used to quickly jotting down notes with a pen and paper.
