I agree with all of the above...pick and choose what helps. Wayne's handout idea, and the creation of templates are areas that YOU (or someone else in the office) can help her with. Go back through her old charts and find repeated paragraphs (elements of the physical, assessments and plans for sinusitis, allergies, bronchitis....whatever she sees repeatedly). Use her own text to create templates. The process is pretty quick but if she is overwhelmed by a full waiting room and a backlog of charts, it may get done. Do it for her, and next time she makes a few clicks instead of dozens.

And one other off the wall idea. It sounds like she values her role as a clinician, diagnosing and treating patients "old-style". The problem is with the documentation. Have you heard of a medical scribe? These people accompany the doc in the office and exam room and create the note (at least the H and P; maybe more) as the patient and doc talk. She could interact with the patient and forget the documentation. The scribe takes it down. Now this does take some degree of proficiency with language and writing....and I don't want to insult any scribes...but there are nearly zero jobs for recent college grads out there (let alone smart high school students). Maybe consider hiring one at a pretty low rate of pay, perhaps even just for the summer to give your doc a breather and develop some of the strategies suggested by others above.


Jon
GI
Baltimore

Reduce needless clicks!