physician satisfaction

  • Artificial Intelligence

    MedCity Pivot Podcast: 2 Perspectives on how AI Can Soothe Burnout, Burden of Prior Authorization

    I interview Punit Singh Soni, CEO of Suki and Niall O’Connor, CTO, Cohere Health to evaluate two areas where AI can have an outsize impact: clinical documentation and prior authorization.

    / Jun 21, 2023 at 7:02 PM
  • Health Tech, Hospitals

    Transparent Communication Can Help Close the Trust Gap Between Physicians and Organizational Leaders

    Only about half of physicians think their organization’s leaders are transparent, honest and make good decisions for patients and employees, according to a new report. To remedy this problem, the leaders of provider organizations must deploy more transparent communication lines with their physicians, as well as facilitate opportunities for physicians to nurture connections with their teams.

    / Jun 19, 2023 at 10:09 AM
  • Medicare, Medicare Advantage, seniors

    Health Tech, Hospitals, SYN

    Can Positive Patient Feedback Reduce Burnout? One Company Thinks So

    Software company Feedtrail recently launched a clinician retention workgroup designed to streamline the process of connecting employees to positive patient feedback. The first cohort involves four providers, including Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles and Huntington Hospital in Pasadena.

    / Dec 12, 2022 at 2:10 PM
  • Consumer / Employer, Health Tech

    Report: Female physicians are much more aware of medicine’s gender discrimination than male physicians

    Gender discrimination is felt much more in women physicians than it is in men, according to a new report. It found that two-thirds of the female physicians have experienced gender discrimination from a medical colleague, and 57% of them have experienced it from a patients. These numbers were 30% and 19%, respectively, for male physicians.

    / Jul 11, 2022 at 2:25 PM
  • Hospitals

    Physician groups revive ‘Quadruple Aim’ movement

    That phrase has been around for several years, but sort of became official in late 2014, when the Annals of Family Medicine published a commentary about the Quadruple Aim.

    / Sep 20, 2016 at 4:46 PM
  • Health IT

    Papers examine physician burnout, patient safety risks tied to EHRs

    One study found that first-year residents in internal medicine spent 5-7 hours a day — about 40 minutes per patient — reading and entering data into EHRs. Another article urged healthcare executives to pay attention to physician complaints about EHR usability.

    / Feb 26, 2016 at 11:15 AM