Patient portal messages, EHR chat: How much time do docs spend?

Two new studies look at how patient portal messages and secure chat in the EHR are eating away at physicians’ time, with one finding that female hospitalists are spending more time on digital communication than their male counterparts. A JAMA research letter found that the number of messages sent through patient portals jumped from 0.99 per […] The post Patient portal messages, EHR chat: How much…