It is definitely taking me at least as long to get through my day with EMR than it did with paper (recognizing that time is not the only measure of EMR success or usefulness) and I am certainly doing tasks that were previously relegated to staff. I am still hopeful that my efficiency will improve as I have only been using AC now for a little over a year and practiced the same old-fashioned way for 11 years before that. I am getting Updox and I hope that it is quicker and better than Paperport. And I hope to get a lab interface which I hope is quicker and better than any fax management. We will see. I am certain that trying to track all the elements that need to be tracked now are huge consumers of time, though arguably, it is improving care.
