The clinician care team needs care and attention
Technology can burn clinicians out, but there’s much more that weighs on them, including organizational requirements and the administrative burdens of prior authorization.
Sometimes, there are simple truths in healthcare. Really basic stuff that makes so much sense, you can’t refute it.
One such moment was a comment on physician burnout by Christine Williams, director of health information management at the University of Wisconsin Health system. Describing the value to clinicians of its virtual scribe project, she looks beyond just the return on investment. “A lot of people really focus on the money, but if we don’t have the clinicians – if we can’t reduce burnout and thus don’t have clinical staff as a result – then we are losing money with turnover,” she says.
That’s a truism that many are beginning to acknowledge now. No medical staff, no revenue. Examining the importance of pressures on clinicians is part of the impetus behind the upcoming HDM series on improving the clinician and care team experience. Learn more about it here; we’ve lined up some of the industry’s finest to tell you how to protect this precious link in the patient recovery chain.
Technology can burn clinicians out, but there’s much more that weighs on them, including organizational requirements and the administrative burdens of prior authorization. If there’s anything we’ve learned from the pandemic, it’s that the clinician care team needs care and attention, especially now.
No clinicians, no mission. And that’s the real bottom line.
See the HDM KLASroom: Improving Clinician & Care Team Experiences
The HDM KLASroom explores the people, process and technology strategies for improving clinician experiences including access to data ‘when I need it’ and how to fulfill the undelivered promises of enhanced clinical experiences through optimized digital health technologies.
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What: Learning series focused on people, process and technology strategies leading clinician experience improvement.
When: Wednesday, April 6 at 11 AM ET
Where: virtual / HealthDataManagement.com
Who: content intended for ambulatory, acute and post-acute care facility leadership, clinicians, operations and technology teams, and other associates supporting patient care.