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>I very highly doubt the healthcare industry would tolerate doctors wasting ~37.5% of their time (75% of paperwork time is wasteful * 50% of doctors' time spent
by tsol 4y ago
>I very highly doubt the healthcare industry would tolerate doctors wasting ~37.5% of their time (75% of paperwork time is wasteful * 50% of doctors' time spent on paperwork = minimum 37.5% of doctors time wasted). Doctors are expensive, so recouping anywhere near 40% of their time would be a priority.
Doctors are expensive, but malpractice lawsuits are more expensive. Documentation is extremely important for lawsuits. If you get sued because a patient you saw last year later died and they're alleging improper health care(just to use a random example), it's highly dependent on having meticulously documented notes that document every single examination finding and treatment administered. Your memory isn't going to be accurate, and the prosecutor is going to be looking for any errors in documentation they can use.
- throwaway894345 4y agoI don't dispute the value of documentation for CYA. I'm saying that if CYA were the motivating use case, electronic medical systems would look a lot more like a Word document than like Epic (Epic is designed to standardize patient histories so they can be analyzed for research, not for paralegal convenience).
- ClumsyPilot 4y ago>I very highly doubt the healthcare industry would tolerate doctors wasting ~37.5% of their time I am sorry, have you been in the workplace in the past 20 years and have you tried adding up all the meeting that get shoved into your calendar? I am lucky if 50% of my day is not taken away from me To imply that someone from higher up wouldn't tolerate' that most of my time is spent in meetings is simply laughable, they are the ones creating them!