Here are four key thoughts:
1. Only eight weeks after the program was implemented, the time Emory’s physicians spent in the EHR system at night and on the weekend decreased 36 percent.
2. Cerner provided Emory the workflow tools, which have specialty-specific views on the EHR. The tools decreased how long it took physicians to navigate their charts by nearly one-third. Julie Hollberg, MD, chief medical informatics officer, Emory Healthcare, said, “By having these provider specialty views of the chart, we brought the right information to the right person, and much faster than we did before.”
3. Using the tools, Emory can measure how much time physicians spent on different parts of the workflow and documentation.
4. Dr. Hollberg said, “Our goal is for them to be able to spend more time with patients, more time with their families and less time working within the electronic medical record.”
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