To what extent does health IT contribute to physician burnout?

An article titled “New $1.2b Partners computer system delivers prescription for irritation” appeared in The Boston Globe on May 17. The narrative describes how several Partners Healthcare providers were originally dissatisfied with the way the Epic implementation went. Judy Lydon, a maternity nurse, begins the story by stating that she has “become a hostage of the computer, spending significantly more of her time logging every blood pressure reading, every feeding, every diaper change…