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February 2, 2014 9:00 am
While email has been considered “cost-free,” a recent JAMA Peds letter titled “Metastasis of E-mail at an Academic Medical Center,” identifies a significant opportunity cost. Think twice about sending that email to everybody! Here’s the link (from John Pohl’s twitter feed): http://dlvr.it/4lD22K
“If 30 seconds were spent per e-mail, the annual cost per physician to read these mass distribution emails was $1641.” If 90 seconds each, then $4923.
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Categories: Pediatrics
Tags: email
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Totally agree–I sent that to everyone 🙂
By Stan Cohen on February 2, 2014 at 10:04 am