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Electronic Health Record (EHR) use has been increasingly associated with clinician burnout. Up to 49% of a clinician’s time is spent working on EHR and other administrative activities. Given competing pressures of being clinically productive and trying to maximize face-to-face time with patients using imperfect and sub-optimized EHR systems, there is a tremendous need to fundamentally transform these systems and improve clinicians’ experiences. This panel will feature findings and implications from important health information technology (IT) research projects aimed to improve clinicians’ EHR experiences. Specifically, presentations and discussions will revolve around evidence-based solutions to improve three of the highest contributors to EHR burden: (1) documentation, (2) chart review, and (3) inbox tasks. The panel will conclude by moderating an in-depth discussion with the panel members and audience about health IT research priorities to further build the evidence-base for alleviating EHR-related clinician burden. The learning objectives for this panel include: increasing awareness of new health IT research aimed to reduce clinician EHR burden; understanding the potential for leveraging these health IT tools and applications into various healthcare settings; and understanding future health IT research directions aimed to improve the clinician EHR experience.

Learning Objective: After participating in this session, the learner should be better able to:

● Understand the current issues and challenges within three main contributors to EHR burden: (1) documentation; (2) chart review; and (3) inbox tasks
● Learn about a voice-generated enhanced electronic note system that improved accuracy and timely availability of inpatient progress notes
● Learn about computational NLP models that improved clinical note review and new clinician-based preferred EHR use and reading patterns
● Understand the current issues and possible solutions for EHR inbox notification burden
● Discuss and formulate health IT research priorities to reduce EHR-related clinician burden

Authors:

Christine Dymek (Presenter)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Thomas Payne (Presenter)
University of Washington Medicine

Genevieve Melton (Presenter)
University of Minnesota

Hardeep Singh (Presenter)
Baylor College of Medicine

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