Physician time spent on direct patient interaction, or: How I learned to stop talking to patients and start loving EHRs
Although this study about 18 months old, I just came across this and the findings were really surprising. During the office day, physicians spent 27.0% of their total time on direct clinical face time with patients and 49.2% of their time on EHR and desk work. While in the examination room with patients, physicians spent 52.9%…