A charting coach and family physician offers simple solutions to increase capacity in your day
As physicians, you’ll always be asked to do more. So, it’s essential to learn how to find time in the day to do everything you have to do. There’s the time you protect for patients, time for the paperwork and the obstacle course of everything else – checking your patient portal, your inbox, lab results, reports, script refills, consult letters, meetings, forms and questions from staff. Canadian charting coach and family physician Dr. Sarah Smith offered the following simple solutions during OntarioMD’s recent digital health symposium that have been proven to increase capacity in your day, so you can create a more sustainable practice and go home without bringing today’s work into tomorrow.
Wendy McCann is a North Bay-based writer.