Primary care physicians are overworked and burned out, due in no small part to the burdens of using time-consuming electronic health record systems.
That’s the consensus of a panel of experts at the Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit who on Tuesday discussed the future of primary care.
According to Anil Jain, MD, a practicing physician at the Cleveland Clinic and chief health information officer for IBM Watson Health, several trends are putting primary care in America under siege.