When I watch doctors and nurses on Twitter talk about burnout, one common theme emerges. Another wellness program or yoga room is not going to help. Instead of making clinicians more resilient (they’re already extremely resilient), we need to address the core problems in healthcare that are causing burnout.
One of those core causes of burnout is the documentation burden and poorly created EHR interfaces which are built around billing rather than the physician or nurse workflow. We know this is the case, because TransformativeMed has created a workflow based on the clinician called CORES and the response from doctors is like seeing technology in medicine with new eyes.
To learn more about the problem of burnout and how the right clinician focused technology can help, I sat down with Jed S. Rosen, MD, Regional Director, Medical Informatics at LifeBridge Health and Rishi Sarna, MD, Chief Medical Officer at TransformativeMed. They share with us some of the stories of burnout in healthcare and more about what they see as the real core problem for doctors that are burnt out and leaving healthcare. Then, I ask them about how tech can be used to help solve the problem and how the clinician workflow and experience changes when you implement a clinician focused technology.
I also ask Dr. Rosen about what type of resistance he faced to this type of change. This includes resistance from the end users and how to get buy-in from others like the CFO. In my experience, many organization’s past experience with IT that didn’t deliver results makes it hard for companies that do deliver the results. Overcoming that skepticism can be a challenge, but Dr. Rosen offers some great insights on how to navigate this.
I think most in the industry see burnout and clinicians leaving medicine for the crisis that it is and we need to find creative ways to address it. Check out our video interview with Dr. Rosen and Dr. Sarna to learn more about their efforts to address the problem.
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