physician burnout
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How HCA Is Integrating Google’s Generative AI Into Its Emergency Departments
This year, HCA Healthcare and Google Cloud have expanded their partnership by exploring ways to integrate Google’s generative AI into HCA’s workflows. The most developed project under this initiative is a pilot that began in February in which HCA’s emergency department physicians are testing a voice-enabled medical dictation tool to save them time on clinical documentation.
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Is Amazon’s Approach With HealthScribe Favoring Collaboration Over Competition Smart?
Amazon recently unveiled HealthScribe, an API that software companies can use to create clinical note generation apps that providers can later adopt. With this approach, Amazon is seeking to collaborate with companies that are building clinical documentation AI apps rather than compete with them. Some think this approach is clever, but others think it does little to facilitate bi-directional EHR integration and create standardization.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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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.
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Epic Integrates Suki’s Voice Assistant Into Its EHR
Suki recently announced one of its biggest partnerships to date: it is integrating its voice assistant into Epic’s EHR. The startup’s assistant can be thought of as like Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa — but for doctors.
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How Receiving Positive Patient Feedback Can Help Boost Clinicians’ Job Satisfaction
Feedtrail believes healthcare workers become more satisfied in their roles when they’re connected to messages of patient gratitude, so it built technology to deliver that positive feedback to clinicians. The company recently announced the results of a five-month clinician retention workgroup, finding that 77% of clinicians agreed that consistently receiving positive patient messages reinforced their purpose.
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Health IT, Health Tech, Physicians, SYN
The Areas That Intermountain Health’s CIO Wants To Address With Technology (And the One He Doesn’t)
In an interview at the Vive conference in Nashville, Tennessee, Craig Richardville, Intermountain’s chief digital and information officer outlined the three areas of priority for Intermountain Health for which technology can be leveraged. But when it comes to a major headache for CIOs, Richardville seems to suggest that a government-led all-hands-on-deck approach is what is needed.
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Health Tech, Hospitals, Startups
Abridge Begins the Largest Deployment of Its Medical Documentation AI
Abridge announced the largest deployment of its technology to date — the University of Kansas Health System will adopt the software for more than 1,500 of its physicians across 140 locations. The startup’s technology listens to visits and creates a near-instant summary that adheres to physicians’ prototypical note structure.
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MedCity Influencers, Physicians
Care Delivery Is Transforming. So Too Must The Role Of The Physician
Many large health systems and provider practices continue to be restrictive, routinely assigning tasks like ordering preventive services such as referrals for annual eye exams or mammograms to overburdened physicians, rather than utilizing nurses who are credentialed for these services. The result is dissatisfied nurses, strained physicians, and frustrated patients.
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Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech, Physicians, SYN
Navina’s Data Platform Slashes Administrative Burden Associated with VBC, Physicians Say
Millennium Physician Group — an independent care group with more than 800 providers across Florida, Texas, and North Carolina — announced successful results following its adoption of Navina’s AI platform. The organization said that the platform saved time, reduced burnout and gave physicians more confidence about forming care plans with patients.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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LG, Amwell Launch New Healthcare TV Kit to Fight Burnout and Workforce Shortages
LG launched the first solution to come from its collaboration with Amwell. The product, called the Carepoint TV Kit 200L, is in beta testing but will soon be sold to hospitals to help clinicians virtually connect to patients’ rooms. Powered by Amwell’s Converge platform, the product is aimed at helping clinicians more easily engage with patients amid healthcare’s workforce shortage crisis.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
6 ways to defeat physician fatigue
The pandemic placed an unfathomable burden on the country’s doctors. For years to come, we’ll be dissecting its implications. Here are six ways healthcare providers can lighten the physician’s burden.
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The current narrative on healthcare burnout is just plain wrong
No matter how many well-earned bonuses, vacations, massages, or wellness apps are offered to employees, if they step into a damaging environment every day, nothing will meaningfully change. We must definitively and mercilessly confront the oppressive systems and circumstances in which they work.
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Report: Physician turnover rates are climbing as they clamor for better work-life balance
Job turnover is on the rise among physicians because their desire for flexibility and work-life balance is emboldening them to leave jobs where they feel overworked or underappreciated, according to a new report. It found that 43% of physicians switched jobs during the pandemic, 8% retired, and 3% left medicine to work in a non-clinical career.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
How hospitals can address provider burnout and staffing issues through digitization
Health systems must seek digital solutions that make the most of existing staff while also prioritizing their wellbeing. A platform that uses sophisticated math and intelligent, continual learning algorithms can unlock value for hospitals, staff and patients.