Ridiculous Study of the Week: EHRs Are Problematic

You wanted answers to physician burnout? Well, you got it! Some of the most brilliant research minds in the world decided to rack their brains and find the source of the problem. And here are the conclusions from the JAMA article:

HIT (Health Information Technology) -related stress is measurable, common (about 70% among respondents), specialty-related, and independently predictive of burnout symptoms. 


Wow! Now why haven’t doctors known this? And why haven’t doctors been complaining about this?

Okay, I can’t even go on with my sarcasm anymore. My tongue is actually hurting my cheek.

It probably took years to do this simple study and for what? I’ll tell you for what. It allows the SEVEN authors of:

Physician stress and burnout: the impact of health information technology 

Rebekah L Gardner, Emily Cooper, Jacqueline Haskell, Daniel A Harris, Sara Poplau, Philip J Kroth, Mark Linzer

…to win “Ridiculous Study of the Week”. Congrats, everyone!

P.S. One last thing. To be fair, EHRs are not really the issue. It’s the system that makes doctors do useless clicks and metrics on the EHR that kills them. Add a tremendous amount of patients that exacerbates the amount of documents to click on and you have a recipe for disaster. I don’t have that issue in Direct Primary Care. I only have 600 patients and my Atlas.MD EHR is awesome, which makes my life so much easier.

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