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Protected Time for Electronic Health Record Work and Physician Productivity

JAMA Network Open 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.46550

December 02, 2025 at 11:00 AM EST

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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.

Corresponding Author: Naga S. Kanaparthy, MD, MPH, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University, 464 Congress Ave, Ste 263, New Haven, CT 06519 (naga.kanaparthy@yale.edu).

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