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Julie Greim1, Daniel Housman, Sarah Lenz
1Clinical Informatics Research and Development, Partners HealthCare System, Boston, MA, USA.
Abstract:
The Massachusetts General Hospital Physicians Organization (MGPO) has implemented physician incentives to drive timely entry of notes into the outpatient electronic health record. Data from the Partners Quality Data Warehouse (QDW) were used to refine and produce a note completion metric and to create reports. This initiative has led to a decrease in the average time to complete a note from 197 to 90 hours, in less than a year.
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