Changes In Primary Care Physicians’ Electronic Health Record Patterns After They Reduced Clinical Visit Volume Gabe G. Weinreb, A. Jay Holmgren, Nate C. Apathy, David W. Bates, Bruce E. Landon, and Lisa S. Rotenstein

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2025.00734?utm_campaign=february+2026+issue&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8pLJzede6PQKl2_AhnzFkBCDoE1wr5sT6WMP47nfADnSRFV7L-Ef8VLuGKMyJbGeaAuA9SyPIQcVVYkhMddq6pWlmt8A&_hsmi=406122480&utm_source=well+read&journalCode=hlthaff Using national EHR data from 2019–22, the study found that primary care physicians who reduced visit volume saw smaller declines in EHR workload—leading to more EHR time per visit, more asynchronous tasks, and more complex patient panels.