Imagine the different ways you use your phone on a morning off of work. Your alarm wakes you up so you can meet a friend. While getting ready, you SnapChat a funny picture of your cat to your sister. You get a notification from your calendar app that you have a...
Healthcare is trying to move forward; however, clinicians are leaving medicine from stress and burnout, and health systems aren’t making as much money as they need to rebound from the deficits of the past few years. How can organizations push towards better healthcare...
You’ve probably heard it by now: clinician burnout is at crisis levels, severely impacting clinicians’ mental health and causing many to leave healthcare. There are lots of shocking numbers around burnout. A 2021 survey found that 61% of physicians reported burnout....
In a previous blog post, we discussed CMS’ proposal that would add three measures to the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program for Fiscal Year 2023 to address health equity. Two of the measures focus on screening and identifying individual social needs that...
CMS has proposed adding three measures to the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program for Fiscal Year 2023 to address health equity. Two of the measures focus on screening and identifying individual social needs that impact health, in an effort to better serve...
EHRs cause a lot of stress for primary care clinicians. One reason for this stress is the sheer amount of time that these clinicians spend on their EHRs. A study of family medicine physicians using Epic EHRs found that physicians spent over 2.5 hours a day on...
Anne is a 67-year-old patient with diabetes. A couple weeks ago she had hip replacement surgery and then was transferred to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) to start her rehab. The initial rehab went well, and she was sent home a few days ago. Before the surgery, Anne...
This Sharp Conversation was with Lee Buttz, MD, MBA, the Chief Medical Officer at Tandigm Health. In this video, Dr. Buttz discusses a wide range of topics, including his start in Army Medicine, reducing the administrative burden, the role tech plays in clinical...
We have all this data, but what do we do with it? Interoperability is, and has been, a buzzword since EHRs became more common in clinical settings. Interoperability is important for providing the best care not only for individuals, but it also has the potential to...