physician burnout

Physician viewpoint: How physicians can ‘tame the electronic beast’ of EHRs

By Jackie Drees for Becker’s Hospital Review To alleviate EHR-induced burnout, clinicians should allot time when not seeing patients to learn system efficiencies to “tame the electronic beast,” according to family medicine physician R. Zorba Paster, MD, of SSM Health Dean Medical Group in Madison, Wis. In an op-ed column for the Wisconsin State Journal, Dr.…

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Primary care, younger docs more likely to report burnout

By Shannon Muchmore for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Nearly 80% of primary care physicians and 57% of specialists reported some level of burnout in a recent online survey of more than 600 physicians conducted by InCrowd, a vendor of market research for life sciences companies. Burnout rates were highest among younger physicians — 70% for…

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Physician burnout: Why legal and regulatory systems may need to step in

By Sharon Hoffman for Philly Voice A career as a physician has traditionally been considered to be among the best vocations that talented students can pursue. That may no longer be the case. All too many doctors report that they are unhappy, frustrated and even prepared to leave the profession. That should worry all of…

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Physician viewpoint: Hospitals exploit the goodwill of physicians, nurses

Emily Rappleye for Becker’s Hospital Review As healthcare becomes increasingly corporatized, administrators lean on the good faith of clinicians to get the job done — and they may be leaning too hard, according to an op-ed published in The New York Times by Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, an attending physician at Bellevue Hospital in New…

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Physician burnout costs industry $4.6B annually

By Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Physician burnout costs the healthcare industry between $2.6 billion and $6.3 billion each year, according to a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The researchers calculated a baseline of about $4.6 billion in costs from turnover, reduced productivity and other burnout-related factors. The study…

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EMR parody account on Twitter draws following from frustrated physicians

By Jackie Drees for Becker’s Hospital Review A parody account on Twitter highlighting physicians’ frustrations with EMR systems has gained more than 10,000 followers since it launched last month, WBUR reports. The account, EPICparodyEMR, is managed by a male physician at a “major East Coast-based hospital,” according to WBUR. The account’s creator did not reveal…

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How Artificial Intelligence Could Transform Medicine

By Anahad O’Connor for The New York Times Last month, President Trump signed an executive order making the development and regulation of artificial intelligence a federal priority. But one area where artificial intelligence is already taking hold is health care. Doctors are already using A.I. to spot potentially lethal lesions on mammograms. Scientists are also…

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Can AI help prevent physician burnout?

By Jordan Rosenfeld for Modern Economics So much of a physician’s workload includes repetitive, tedious tasks involved in researching diagnoses and analyzing patient data and imaging. On top of increasingly demanding administrative and regulatory burdens and EHR hassles, it’s no wonder physicians are burning out in record numbers. Experts in artificial intelligence (AI)—a form of…

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Hospitals now employ more than 40% of physicians, analysis finds

By Les Masterson for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Hospitals acquired 8,000 medical practices and 14,000 physicians left private practice and entered into employment arrangements with hospitals between July 2016 and January 2018, according to a new report by Avalere Health and the Physicians Advisory Institute (PAI). The number of hospital-acquired physician practices grew from 35,700…

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