Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)
Provider burnout has become a $4.6 billion a year problem, resulting in patient and provider churn and a growing physician shortage due to those leaving the profession. Reducing the time that physicians spend documenting patient visits can help decrease fatigue and burnout, as well as allow physicians more time to spend with patients.
Today’s physicians face some unique challenges. Patients are increasingly seeing reduced engagement from physicians who are often rushed and distracted during visits because of the documentation burden, leading to 71% of surveyed patients feeling “frustrated” with their healthcare experience. And with the added frustrations of...
Using their mobile device, physicians unobtrusively record their visits, streaming their speech to the Nuance AI platform, where it gets translated into a clinical node and goes through a quality review process to ensure accuracy before being entered into the EHR. The physician then simply has to review and sign off on the notes, saving time and...
Scribe programs started with the idea of reducing the data-entry burden on physicians, but high turnover and lack of industry standards and certification for scribes can lead to inconsistent documentation quality and an additional training burden on the physician.
With pandemic-related stress exacerbated by ever-increasing administrative workloads, physician burnout is at an all-time high. How can healthcare organizations help reduce providers’ feelings of burnout and improve the patient experience?
With the annual revenue loss of one physician vacancy estimated at more than $2 million – and the cost to recruit replacements estimated at $250,000 each – losses of $4.68 billion per year can be attributed to physician burnout.
In a recent HIMSS survey, 59% of hospital leadership staff said that they have lost potential reimbursements over the last year due to poor data quality, and 47% reported inaccuracies in their quality reporting due to poor-quality data.
Many EHR problem lists have duplicate entries, outdated diagnoses and other information unrelated to a patient’s present condition, leading to confusion and frustration for clinicians.
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While most provider organizations have taken on some type of performance risk, only 15% have moved to pure population-based payment—and that figure is stalled, projected to grow a mere 1% by 2025.
The lack of interoperability in healthcare ecosystems is a critical issue for U.S. healthcare. The recent issuance of the Interoperability and Patient Access final rule (CMS-9115-F) by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) addresses this by driving interoperability and providing patients with access to their own health information...
