Not so sure about this.
The cut-and-paste features is a major time saver. Instead of typing say “Patients blood pressure well controlled Continue current meds”, it is cut-and-pasted since the patient’s circumstances haven’t changed. Gives docs more time to look the patient in the eye. Feds are starting to get antsy about that.
A report came out a few years ago that found that the amount of time doc’s spend on charting went up 5% pre-EMR to 35% post-EMR. This video is right about this. Just the amount of time to figure out the patient’s whole story went from 2 pages to 7 or 8.
If the Fed require doc’s to spend even more time charting private practice will fall. That may be the point.
Another kicker is the lobbyist who pushed EMRs were the data mining guys.