EMRs contribute to HCW burnout, are disruptive to workflows, contribute to alarm fatigue, decrease patient contact time, and are a way for hospitals to bill. But also... EMRs are better at trending care, reduce prescribing errors, measure social determinants of health. Do Laura and Abby like the EMR? Do they hate the EMR? is the EMR Laura and Abby's frenemy? No one knows, but they definitely have a lot of questions like:

Is the EMR a billing software?
Do scribes increase RVUs?
Should there be price transparency in the EMR?
Should patients get immediate access to results?
Definitely good that patients can carry their records around with them.. right?
Healthcare systems don’t have the infrastructure to do counselling, so do patients get results and then not have a provider to talk to them about it?
Is it paternalism to think all doctors break bad news well?
What if a patient finds out they have cancer from checking their MRI reports at home?

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https://halohealth.com/blog/clinician-burnout-your-ehr-may-be-the-culprit/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAw9qOBhC-ARIsAG-rdn5NmxIgucWinebyTaDNsXQTBO2H9SFtnble5nNCs-kGwFKpuyCZTnYaAufzEALw_wcB

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5559244/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-020-0221-y

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https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/blogs/inpractice/entry/effectiveness_of_scribes.html

https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/digital/ehr-scribes-cut-physician-documentation-time-half-study-says

https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/digital/ehr-scribes-cut-physician-documentation-time-half-study-says

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