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Study finds first-year interns spend 43% of their day on EHR

April 16, 2019

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Internal medicine residents devote 87 percent of their work time away from patients, about half of which is taken up interacting with electronic health records.

That’s the finding of a new study, conducted by researchers at Penn Medicine and Johns Hopkins University, published on Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The analysis of six internal medicine programs in the mid-Atlantic region assessed how first-year interns allocate time while working on general medicine inpatient services. The researchers documented the activities of 80 interns—which included 194 shifts and 2,173 hours—during a three-month period.

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