Mixing Electronic and Non-Electronic Health Records Limits Physician Productivity - The Arizona Experience

This study aimed to estimate the effects of electronic health records (EHRs) on physician productivity in day-to-day practice by including the combinations of EHRs with nonelectronic records that typify current practice. The potential productivity of EHRs is severly limited by the typical practice of combining EHRs withnon-electronic records. Reducing the number of different types of records used in a practice will increase the positive effects of EHRs on productivity. One requirement for such reductions is an increased availability of health information exchanges.

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