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EHRs Not Shortening Patient Visits

A new study appearing in the American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC) shows doctors are spending more time with patients, despite feeling to the contrary. So reports EHR Intelligence.

Researchers from North Carolina's Wake Forest School of Medicine used data from the annual National Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys between 1993 and 2010 to see if the length of a patient visit has changed as EHRs have evolved.

According to the data, the length of a primary care visit increased from 17.9 minutes to 20.3 minutes during that time span with specialty visits increasing from 19 minutes to 21 minutes.

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