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  • Healthcare Informatics
  • Medical Informatics
  • Clinical Documentation Improvement

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  • Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) can negatively impact healthcare professionals, leading to increased work hours, reduced patient interaction, and physician burnout.
  • Optimizing EMR usability is crucial for enhancing healthcare professional productivity, efficiency, quality, and accuracy.
  • Specific documentation challenges in the mother-baby unit (MBU), including non-standardized templates and time-consuming notes, prompted this quality improvement initiative.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the impact of optimizing physician note templates within an MBU.
  • To quantify time savings for patient care resulting from improved note templates.
  • To evaluate the effect of optimized notes on provider satisfaction.

Main Methods:

  • A pilot quality improvement study was conducted in the MBU, focusing on optimizing four key note templates: History and Physical (H and P), Progress Note (PN), Discharge Summary (DCS), and Hand-Off List (HOL).
  • Optimized templates incorporated dynamic links for auto-populating data and discrete data pick lists, replacing free-text entries.
  • Ten pediatric residents completed both old and new note templates for control newborn encounters, with time spent and actions (clicks, keystrokes) recorded. Provider surveys assessed satisfaction.

Main Results:

  • Physician note optimization resulted in an average time savings of 23 minutes per infant.
  • Extrapolated across 9373 MBU infants (Jan 2016-Sep 2019), this translated to 2.6 hours saved daily, considering an average two-day length of stay.
  • The new templates required significantly fewer actions (69 fewer total actions), with specific reductions in H and P (11), PN (8), DCS (18), and HOL (32) templates. Provider surveys indicated improved satisfaction.

Conclusions:

  • Optimized physician notes in the MBU demonstrably saved valuable time for patient care.
  • The improvements in documentation efficiency led to enhanced provider satisfaction.
  • This study highlights the significant benefits of EMR usability optimization in reducing physician burden and improving healthcare delivery.