Tethered to the EHR: primary care physician workload assessment using EHR event log data and time-motion observations

BG Arndt, JW Beasley, MD Watkinson… - The Annals of Family …, 2017 - Annals Family Med
PURPOSE Primary care physicians spend nearly 2 hours on electronic health record (EHR)
tasks per hour of direct patient care. Demand for non–face-to-face care, such as …

Metrics for assessing physician activity using electronic health record log data

CA Sinsky, A Rule, G Cohen, BG Arndt… - Journal of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Electronic health record (EHR) log data have shown promise in measuring physician time
spent on clinical activities, contributing to deeper understanding and further optimization of the …

Refining vendor-defined measures to accurately quantify EHR workload outside time scheduled with patients

BG Arndt, MA Micek, A Rule, CM Shafer… - The Annals of Family …, 2023 - Annals Family Med
Accurately quantifying clinician time spent on electronic health record (EHR) activities
outside the time scheduled with patients is critical for understanding occupational stress …

[HTML][HTML] Gender differences in primary care physicians' electronic health record use over time: an observational study

…, MA Micek, JJ Baltus, CA Sinsky, BG Arndt - Journal of General …, 2023 - Springer
METHODS This retrospective cross-sectional study was approved by the University of
Wisconsin’s institutional review board. We collected monthly EHR usage (Epic Systems; Verona, …

Disparities in use of patient portals among adults in family medicine

WJ Tuan, M Mellott, BG Arndt, J Jones… - The Journal of the …, 2022 - Am Board Family Med
Objective: This study examined patient portal utilization by analyzing the pattern of time and
feature use of patients, and thus to identify functionalities of portal use and patient …

[HTML][HTML] Expansion and evaluation of pharmacist services in primary care

KJ Hartkopf, KM Heimerl, KM McGowan, BG Arndt - Pharmacy, 2020 - mdpi.com
Challenges with primary care access and overextended providers present opportunities for
pharmacists as patient care extenders for chronic disease management. The primary …

[HTML][HTML] Sparse modeling of spatial environmental variables associated with asthma

…, A Tandias, KJ Cowan, CD Tomasallo, BG Arndt… - Journal of biomedical …, 2015 - Elsevier
Geographically distributed environmental factors influence the burden of diseases such as
asthma. Our objective was to identify sparse environmental variables associated with asthma …

More Tethered to the EHR: EHR Workload Trends Among Academic Primary Care Physicians, 2019-2023

BG Arndt, MA Micek, A Rule, CM Shafer… - The Annals of Family …, 2024 - Annals Family Med
PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to evaluate recent trends in primary care physician (PCP)
electronic health record (EHR) workload. METHODS This longitudinal study observed …

Primary care patients' and staff's perceptions of self-rooming as alternative to waiting rooms

…, CE Perry, MA Micek, BG Arndt… - The Annals of Family …, 2023 - Annals Family Med
PURPOSE Most patients are escorted to exam rooms (escorted rooming) although patients
directing themselves to their exam room (self-rooming) saves patient and staff time while …

[HTML][HTML] EHR Workload Trends Among Academic Primary Care Physicians From 2019 to 2023

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Using data from May 2019 to March 2023, this longitudinal study evaluated recent trends in
primary care physicians'(PCPs') electronic health record (EHR) workload. There was a 7.8% …