Too Many Clicks: The Tax Your EMR Charges Every Session

An emergency physician registers about 4,000 clicks in a single shift, and in one study clinicians spent more time on data entry (43%) than in direct contact with patients (28%). Outpatient clinicians average more than 16 minutes in the EHR per encounter. The click count isn't a clinician problem — it's a design choice, and AI that drafts the note is what finally collapses it.