From the article: "Communication between clinicians is critical to coordination of care and prevention of adverse outcomes in the outpatient setting. Increasing the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and medical home-based care models will greatly increase electronic communication between different members of the health care team.1-3 One method of clinician-to-clinician communication is note-based messaging through the EHR, where the recipient is requested to provide their "additional signature" to a message to attest that it was received. We recently found that primary care providers (PCPs) receive a large number of EHR-based additional signature request (ASR) alerts and spend considerable time processing them.4 Large numbers of messages5-6 might also cause PCPs to miss certain higher-priority notifications." Read more
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McDonald, Clement J. and Michael H. McDonald. INVITED COMMENTARY—Electronic Medical Records and Preserving Primary Care Physicians' Time: Comment on "Electronic Health Record–Based Messages to Primary Care Providers." Arch Intern Med. 2012;172(3):285-287, February 13, 2012.