Cryptosmith is right on the money. My Wife is also an MD, and since her organization has switched to EHR, her workload has increased by appr. 25% due to paperwork that ancillary staff USED to do, and therefore her reimbursement rate has fallen about 10%. Her average work week has grown from 40 hours per week to 51. She is also a touch-typist and very computer literate and this is the SECOND YEAR of the new system. The software that they use is not even remotely intuitive (especially for Docs, most of the elder still choose to dictate and pay for the service out of their own pockets and/or are "hunt-and-peckers"). Three out of four "old-timer" Docs at her place of employment have either retired or moved elsewhere since it's implementation, and none of the new providers will stay for over three months. This is bad Ju-Ju for patients due to the fact that the Providers are always running behind schedule now, and when the Hospital finally grows tired of the lost productivity amidst the constant battle for reimbursement with Medicare....well, I'll give you three guesses as to who is going to wind up covering the difference for this mandatory bureaucratic B.S. I don't pay too much attention to the details, because it irritates me to no end and I can't help her fix it, so if my facts are a little off, please be gentle with me.:)
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Cryptosmith is right on the money. My Wife is also an MD, and since her organization has switched to EHR, her workload has increased by appr. 25% due to paperwork that ancillary staff USED to do, and therefore her reimbursement rate has fallen about 10%. Her average work week has grown from 40 hours per week to 51. She is also a touch-typist and very computer literate and this is the SECOND YEAR of the new system. The software that they use is not even remotely intuitive (especially for Docs, most of the elder still choose to dictate and pay for the service out of their own pockets and/or are "hunt-and-peckers"). Three out of four "old-timer" Docs at her place of employment have either retired or moved elsewhere since it's implementation, and none of the new providers will stay for over three months. This is bad Ju-Ju for patients due to the fact that the Providers are always running behind schedule now, and when the Hospital finally grows tired of the lost productivity amidst the constant battle for reimbursement with Medicare....well, I'll give you three guesses as to who is going to wind up covering the difference for this mandatory bureaucratic B.S. I don't pay too much attention to the details, because it irritates me to no end and I can't help her fix it, so if my facts are a little off, please be gentle with me. :)