How CIOs and IT Can Help with Clinician Retention

It certainly feels like we are just moving from one crisis to another in healthcare right now. As we emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, we were suddenly hit with a healthcare workforce challenge. We find ourselves again in a “all-hands-on-deck” situation where every department needs to contribute to solving the problem. But what can healthcare CIOs and IT departments do to help retain clinicians? A new eBook offers five practical ways to help. The eBook was written in collaboration with CareAlign, a company that provides a secure, HIPAA compliant workspace to build care plans, manage tasks, and generate notes. Cognitive Load The eBook is centered on Cognitive Load – the amount of information that a person needs to hold and process to perform an activity like diagnose a patient, document an encounter, or administer medication. It turns out that cognitive load is an overlooked factor in staff dissatisfaction and frustration. In a nutshell, the higher the cognitive load, the more effort it takes to perform a task. The more effort it takes, the more frustrated people become which can ultimately lead to that person leaving the organization. Tasks with high cognitive load are silently and insidiously sapping the energy from the healthcare workforce. “We want clinicians to be focused on what they are uniquely positioned to do: diagnostic and clinical reasoning, patient conversations and care planning,” stated Subha Airan-Javia, MD – Founder and CEO at CareAl...
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