_‘Clinician burnout is a critical issue to understand and address,” says Mohsen Bayati, a professor of operations, information, and technology at Stanford Graduate School of Business. The condition is thought to affect nearly half of all U.S. doctors, at a cost of about $4.6 billion annually due to turnover and reduced work.

Doctors report that one of the major reasons they feel burned out is electronic medical records, the digital records that have replaced paper patient files. It’s not uncommon for doctors to spend more time updating EMRs than they do with their patients.

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