Hospital Intern Time, Why ICD10?, and EHR Satisfaction Pre-MU

April 6, 2014
John Lynn
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Everyone that reads this immediately thinks that this is a terrible thing. It seems ghastly that a doctor that’s paid to treat patients would spend so much time with an EMR vs with patients. I agree with everyone that are highest paid resource should be using as much time as possible with and treating patients. However, this study would have a lot more meaning if it was paired with a previous study that showed how much time a hospital intern spent in a paper chart. Maybe they spent 400% more time with a paper chart than direct patient contact. Then, this stat would come off looking very different. You have to always remember that you have to take into account the previous status quo.


This article and the discussion around ICD-10 was phenomenal. Passionate viewpoints on each side. It fleshed out both sides of the arguments for me really well. Too bad no one will care too much for a while.


Oh…the good old days. When everyone love EHR, because they chose to do it and so they made the most of their choice. Ok, I’m being a little facetious, but I seem to remember a study I saw that showed how much more unsatisfied doctors are with EHR today versus pre-MU. I imagine it’s not all MU’s fault, but it certainly hasn’t helped with physician EHR satisfaction.

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John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

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  • Perhaps we should consider redesigning EMR’s to promote workflow instead of MU and acceptance would be higher. Using scribes and other workarounds just seems to be another way of maximizing rvus rather than patient care…..

    Hopefully this delay will be the first step to killing the worthless and unworkable ICD 10…..maybe we can load it in some empty cpu’s and lash them together and set fire to it on the falling tide…….not sure how we could code it but I’m sure there’s a way

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