“Why does an overwhelming cognitive load burden on physicians matter?For starters and perhaps most obviously, the amount of information physicians must process is a primary contributor to burnout. Factors cited by physicians, according to the latest comprehensive survey by Medscape,include too… Read more
“But healthcare as an enormous, cost-sucking entity is fundamentally broken, and it’s weighing heaviest on providers—increasing burnout, decreasing satisfaction, and creating friction in already clunky workflows. And of course, this crisis has terrible and tremendous degrading impact on the business… Read more
“Atul Gawande, MD, a surgeon at Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital and writer for The New Yorker, says tackling complex issues such as rising healthcare costs and gun violence is a lengthy process, but can be achieved within our lifetimes …… Read more
“The general concept of a care pathway is a multidisciplinary-managed, tool-based health care plan for a specific group of patients with a predictable clinical course in which the different tasks by the professionals involved in the patients’ care are defined,… Read more
“Health care leaders consistently give voice to the importance of culture and safety. Asked to name the top leadership skills needed for success in the evolving health care environment, members of the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council — made up of… Read more
“Healthcare’s one-size-fits-all approach to treating patients must be replaced with a personalized approach to medicine that focuses on individuals and the unique needs of each family member, says John Halamka, MD, chief information officer at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical… Read more
“Here are four frustrations physicians have with EHRs. 1. Lloyd Minor, MD, dean of Stanford (Calf.) University Medical School, told KQED Science EHRs primarily serve as a documentation tool for billing and quality reporting, rather than as a tool to… Read more