Could A.I. Turn The Tables On The Physician Burnout Epidemic?

There’s an urgent need to lower the staggering levels of physician burnout around the globe as it results in reduced quality of life for the medical community, decreased levels of patient care – and a worsening human resources crisis in the long run. While technology, especially EHRs, are often considered as an essential factor contributing to physician burnout, we expect artificial intelligence to significantly reduce the administrative burden an improve medical professionals’ work experience in the future. < The rough numbers of physician burnout The emotional and mental well-being of medical professionals around the world has reached such historically low levels, that the incoming President of the World Medical Association, Dr. Leonid Eidelman, started his inauguration speech in October 2018 with addressing the “pandemic of physician burnout”. At that moment, nearly half of the world’s 10 million physicians had symptoms of burnout, including emotional exhaustion, interpersonal disengagement, and a low sense of personal accomplishment, he explained. It continues to negatively influence the quality of care and shorten the lifetime a physician is able to practice medicine, Dr. Eidelman added. The situation has never been so disappointing as today – in the age of technological promise – and it gets worse day by day. While then acting Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy already sounded the alarm bells in the US three years ago, statistics show that the phe...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine administration administrative AI burnout digital health EHR future health technology Healthcare Innovation medical medical records physician physician burnout Source Type: blogs