A New Opportunity to Reduce Resident Burnout: Young Doctors Are AI Natives
Residents embrace AI for everything from clinical decisions to emotional support. Health systems need to meet them where they are.
Residents embrace AI for everything from clinical decisions to emotional support. Health systems need to meet them where they are.
One way that we can address this root cause of burnout is by supporting health care workers in using their time most effectively. That involves deploying technologies that make their lives easier.
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.
While the healthcare industry’s digital transformation continues pushing forward — accelerated, in part, by growing adoption of telehealth — we’re also seeing the effects of a stronger digital foundation for the future of healthcare.
Looking after the entire healthcare workforce’s—including allied healthcare workers’—diminishing mental health and wellbeing should remain a top priority to reduce burnout.
Healthcare providers pushed to the brink after a year of the Covid-19 pandemic are tired, burned out, and even suffering the effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
MedCity News was at the Vive conference and spoke with executives who shared their insights for the healthcare industry.
Taking your clinician expertise and applying it to the business world might reduce your sense of burnout and rekindle the love you feel for medicine.