AI Won’t Fix Physician Burnout — Giving Them More Autonomy Will
AI documentation tools are genuinely useful. But they are treating a symptom, not the disease. The disease is that physicians have lost control over how they work.
AI documentation tools are genuinely useful. But they are treating a symptom, not the disease. The disease is that physicians have lost control over how they work.
If ambient AI evolves the way the EHR did, but without repeating its mistakes, the next 5 to 10 years could transform healthcare. Documentation will become background noise instead of the center of gravity in patient care.
Today’s challenges — such as rapid technological innovations, shifting patient demographics, and mounting financial pressures — call not for just any leader but for a particular type of leader. They must be able to assess like clinicians and lead like CEOs.
When paired with the expertise of health care providers, who serve as guides, partners in care, and healers, we have the critical elements in the formula for providing the patient with quality, personalized care, not merely on an episodic basis, but as the foundation of improved whole person care to take them through their life’s journeys.
Americans suffer when hospitals close, nursing homes fall below care standards and mental health services become inaccessible. Immigration should be part of the solution.
All of us can see glaring issues with the healthcare system that need to be addressed — but system-level change is hard. The leap to VBC isn’t easy, but the results are undeniable.
Authority built on information control cannot survive in the age of AI and instant access. But authority built on wisdom, judgment, empathy, and genuine partnership? That's eternal. And it's exactly what patients have been asking for all along.
Many of today’s systems weren’t built for speed, supervision, or scale, and they can’t support the level of intelligence or flexibility that modern care delivery demands. The solution isn’t to retreat from APPs. It’s to invest in models that make their work safe, effective, and scalable.
With AI automating routine workflows behind the scenes, intelligent systems let healthcare professionals devote themselves fully to face-to-face care, while listening closely and applying their expertise.
The tools exist today to significantly reduce PA's burden on our healthcare system, we just need to mobilize and implement them.
A new report from Relatient highlights ways hospitals and physician practices can improve workflows and how to create frictionless patient interactions.
Besides the impact to physician satisfaction, the cost of this administrative burden is staggering: Organizations spend $82.7 billion annually on documentation, coding, and other administrative tasks, straining both budgets and staff.
To realize true, sustainable savings in total cost of care, the healthcare system needs to reconsider the support — or lack of support — it provides throughout patients’ medication experiences and the snowball effect that creates on a lifetime of healthcare costs.
In a webinar last week, BuildMyHealth CEO and Co-founder Dr. Jonathan Kaplan shared how physician practices not only can access the weight loss drug by working with compounding pharmacies, but also use BuildMyHealth to provide this drug to their own patients who are suitable candidates for the drug.