Doctors spend more time on administrative work than they do seeing patients face-to-face and the problem has gotten worse over the past few years.
That's according to research from the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute. The research institute, affiliated with Sutter Health, looked at electronic health records data from more than 760,000 patients and 471 physicians at Sutter over four years. The time spent on administrative work has only grown over the years, which means time with patients…
Doctors spend more time on administrative work than they do seeing patients face-to-face and the problem has gotten worse over the past few years.
That's according to research from the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute. The research institute, affiliated with Sutter Health, looked at electronic health records data from more than 760,000 patients and 471 physicians at Sutter over four years. The time spent on administrative work has only grown over the years, which means time with patients…