An exclusive survey conducted by the American Medical Association (AMA) brings a ray of hope as it unveils a significant decrease in physician burnout to below 50% for the first time since 2020. In 2021, the alarming rate of physician burnout stood at 62.8%.
The main factors contributing to physician burnout are the burdensome administrative tasks (62%), long work hours (41%), and a lack of respect from colleagues (40%). While the recent survey shows progress, the journey to tackle the root causes of burnout continues. It is crucial that healthcare organizations continue to help their care teams rediscover their passion so they can focus on delivering top-notch care to their patients.
Why delay any longer?
The financial impact of burnout is substantial. It is estimated that burnout costs the U.S. healthcare system around $4.6 billion annually, largely due to physician turnover and reduced work hours. For each physician who leaves due to burnout, the cost to their organization ranges from $500,000 to $1 million or more, depending on their specialty.
Imagine being a healthcare worker passionate about providing the best care, only to find yourself bogged down by paperwork and administrative tasks. Your time with patients diminishes, and the passion that initially drove you starts to wane. This scenario is all too common, but there are actionable steps healthcare facilities can take to mitigate these challenges.
To help mitigate these challenges, 70% of the top healthcare systems have partnered with healthcare technology leaders. These partnerships offer several benefits to reducing the stress on an already overworked clinical staff:
- Delegate administrative tasks to a technology partner with a team of experts.
While crucial to healthcare operations, the task of collecting and organizing medical records takes valuable time and energy from care teams who should be focused on providing exceptional patient care. By entrusting these tasks to a healthcare technology partner, you can streamline workflows and cut down up to 85% of the time spent on collecting and organizing new patient records. This process not only lightens their workload but also helps them prepare for the initial patient visit and boosts job satisfaction by reclaiming valuable time in their day.
- Provide clinicians with single source of medical history documentation
When a patient arrives at a specialized healthcare facility, their medical appointments are often spread across multiple doctors and locations. Before the appointment, the care team must gather information from various, disparate sources. This data is frequently unorganized and dispersed throughout the patient’s chart, resulting in time spent searching for the necessary details to develop an effective treatment plan. Important information can easily be overlooked or missed.
Partnering with a technology provider eliminates this problem. With a single-source solution, care teams can access comprehensive actionable medical histories in one streamlined location within the chart, significantly reducing the time spent searching and minimizing the risk of missing critical details.
- Medical histories that are tailored to meet the needs of each specialty.
Different specialties require varying critical medical documentation and resources such as surgical notes, visit notes, history and physicals, radiology images and reports and pathology material and reports to show a complete clinical picture for newly referred patients
With a technology partner, you can accurately organize patient records prior to appointments, tailored to meet the doctor’s specific needs in a clinically organized template, eliminating redundant requests and providing a complete overview of a patient’s medical history. This empowerment enables care teams to craft personalized and impactful treatment plans with confidence.
- Create best practices for sharing medical histories between internal teams.
With an outside team of experts, healthcare organizations not only have access to a patient’s requested and actionable medical histories – but access to an entire team to guide them by providing ongoing best practices and support for working seamlessly and effectively across internal business functions.
- Utilize staff to the top of their licenses and abilities
The ongoing labor shortage in healthcare is placing a significant strain on physicians and their care teams. Staff members often juggle multiple tasks with competing priorities, which can detract from essential duties that impact a physician’s day-to-day clinic operations. This includes the thorough preparation and review of new patient charts and providing effective patient navigation and support.
To maximize your team’s efficiency and effectiveness, allow your nursing staff to work at the top of their license by delegating administrative tasks to a trusted technology partner. Our services take the burden off your staff by managing the request, collection, and organization of complete medical histories. This preparation ensures that new patient appointments are well-organized, allowing your team to focus on delivering high-quality patient care and providing comprehensive support throughout the patient’s journey.
At eHealth Technologies, we are dedicated to enhancing access to critical care for everyone by addressing the challenge of provider burnout, particularly stemming from time-consuming administrative tasks. Our solutions are designed to streamline these duties, relieving care teams of burdensome tasks and ultimately improving patient outcomes.
Our approach focuses on reducing the workload for healthcare providers and staff, for less overwhelming workdays. By automating and simplifying processes, eHealth Technologies helps physicians dedicate more time to direct patient interactions with requested and actionable data for meaningful appointments.
Connect with us today to take the first step towards transforming your clinician workflows and providing a better physician experience.
