Medical Coding

EHR Clinical Note Length Continues to Grow Despite Coding Changes

July 17, 2023 - Despite EHR coding changes enacted in 2021 aimed at reducing documentation burden, an Epic Research report has found that the average EHR clinical note length has continued to increase. Researchers evaluated 1.7 billion clinical notes written by 166,318 outpatient providers from May 2020 to April 2023.  They found that the average length...


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