Who doesn’t want to make delivering and documenting care easier? Increasingly, accessing information and performing tasks in the EHR on a mobile device, from anywhere anytime, provides more quality time for patients and less agonizing time after hours sifting through “paperwork,” electronic or otherwise. Let’s break it down: Medical practices across the United States are being ravaged by provider burnout. A significant contributor to this phenomenon is excessive documentation demands. Mobile devices reduce time spent in front of the EHR. Implementing mobile greatly reduces the need for after-hours charting and can eliminate it altogether—which translates into a lower risk of burnout for physicians. Imagine you are at home or at a sporting event and an urgent patient call comes through. With a mobile device, you can access the patient record from your smartphone without a complex VPN login process. In many cases, you’ll be able to address the patient’s needs from your smartphone without having to return to the office or log into a desktop or laptop computer. Mobile technology is being used more and more in the administration of medical practice. Providers and staff are discovering ways to use mobile to meet the day-to-day demands of their work more easily. Here’s one example: Front desk staff use a scanning feature to scan documents into a patient chart because it's faster and easier than using the full-sized scanner that sits in the back office.