Surprisingly, for clinical systems designed to promote efficiency in healthcare delivery, a majority of today’s American physicians find that electronic health record (EHR) solutions make clinical care less efficient, according to the results of a new provider survey by medical malpractice insurer The Doctors Company.

61% of respondents to the survey said that EHRs disrupt their clinical workflow. 54% indicted that the advent of EHR systems has had a negative effect on their patient-provider relationships.

“Only 14 percent of doctors reported a positive experience with EHR vendors, with the rest split on whether the service has been neutral or negative,” the report’s authors stated.

“Doctors worry that pay-for-performance reimbursement doesn’t take into account the nuances of the doctor-patient relationship, and puts a focus on population-level data instead of individual outcomes,” they wrote.

However, it should be noted that most physicians who responded to the survey were aged 51 or older, reported EHRIntelligence‘s Kate Monica, so generational factors may have influenced the survey’s results.

Learn more here, in EHRIntelligence.