Racing Against the Clock: Internal Medicine Residents' Time Spent On Electronic Health Records.

Background: Since the late 1980s, resident physicians have spent increasing amounts of time on electronic health record (EHR) data entry and retrieval. Objective longitudinal data measuring time spent on the EHR are lacking.

Objective: We sought to quantify the time actually spent using the EHR by all first-year internal medicine residents in a single program (N = 41).

Hepatitis C: improving the quality of screening in a community hospital by implementing an electronic medical record intervention.

Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) have recommended that adults born between the years of 1945-1965 should receive one-time testing for Hepatitis C Virus (HCV).

High value cost conscious care for diabetic patients at a community hospital.

At New York Methodist Hospital (Brooklyn, NY), the pattern of ordering glucose testing was studied by a multidisciplinary committee because the medicine residents were placing inpatient chemstrip orders at their own discretion. It was found that chemstrip orders were being placed at inappropriate frequencies, and occasionally on inappropriate patients. The staff and residents were educated on daily rounds in order to achieve the goal of reducing unwarranted fingersticks, consequently increasing patient satisfaction and reducing wasted time, resources, and costs.