Protected Time for Electronic Health Record Work and Physician Productivity
This cohort study evaluates whether reserving 1 appointment slot per half-day for internal medicine physicians to complete asynchronous, electronic health record (EHR)–based work is associated with changes in productivity, EHR use, and patient communication volume.
Authors
- Naga Sasidhar Kanaparthy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2342-2412)
- Lisa S. Rotenstein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8270-7602)
- A Jay Holmgren (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7939-6831)
- Hyung Paek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9523-0930)
- Katherine E Goodman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2851-775X)
- Robert McLean (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9764-3234)
- Edward R. Melnick (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6509-9537)
- Brian Williams (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0805-9333)
- Yu Sun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1034-3798)
- Robert J. Doolan
Institutions
- University of Maryland, Baltimore (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (US)
- Yale University (US)
- VA Connecticut Healthcare System (US)
- Yale New Haven Health System (US)
- University of Colorado Denver (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAMA Network Open
- Published
- 2025-12-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.46550
- Primary Topic
- Electronic Health Records Systems
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Arnold Ventures
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- U.S. National Library of Medicine