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
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Source: The Medical Futurist - January 31, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora 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
Mission-Hostile Hospital Management: Quieter, but Still Pernicious After All These Years
Hospitals exist to take care of sick people, with the goal of making them better. Hospitals employ and work with health care professionals, again who are sworn to put taking care of patients ahead of all other concerns.However, since we foundedHealth Care Renewal, we have noted striking examples of hospital leaders threatening their hospitals ' fundamental mission and/or health care professionals ' core values, which we dubbedmission-hostile management. We also saw mission-hostile management affecting the broader health care industry, particularly pharmaceutical and device companies. Most recently, the mo...
Source: Health Care Renewal - December 10, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: hospitals imperial CEO managerialism mission-hostile management perverse incentives Source Type: blogs
AAP Bronchiolitis Guidelines a Mismatch with Clinical Practice
I recently met with a group from our children's hospital to standardize the hospital management of bronchiolitis according to the latest American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines. (Pediatrics 2014;134[5]:e1474; http://bit.ly/2QIGbMX.) Unfortunately, these guidelines seem to cause confusion for experienced and inexperienced emergency physicians alike.This confusion comes from the guidelines raising unaddressed issues and new questions, most importantly not tackling important aspects of frontline clinical practice. These guidelines were developed with the best evidence currently available, and their application mo...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - December 4, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Making hospitals safe for people with diabetes
This report has been developed through conversations with people with diabetes, diabetes inpatient teams, healthcare professionals working in hospitals and hospital managers. It highlights the challenges facing diabetes inpatient services and shows what should be in place in all hospitals.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 8, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Patient safety Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Making Sense of the Health Care Merger Scene
By JEFF GOLDSMITH
In the past 12 months, there has been a raft of multi-billion-dollar mergers in health care. What do these deals tell us about the emerging health care landscape, and what will they mean for patients/consumers and the incumbent actors in the health system?
Health Systems
There have been a few large health system mergers in the past year, notably the $11 billion multi-market combinations of Aurora Health Care and Advocate Health Care Network in Milwaukee and suburban Chicago, as well as the proposed (but not yet consummated) $28 billion merger of Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health. However, the...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 23, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Hospitals Physicians The Business of Health Care Healthcare merger Healthcare systems the future of healthcare Source Type: blogs
What Healthcare Should Learn From Stanley Kubrick ’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
Shooting of 2001: A Space Odyssey began fifty-two years ago, on 29 December 1965, but it still looks modern and believable. One of the best sci-fi movies of all times, if not the very best. What was the secret of Stanley Kubrick and what does that mean for modern healthcare? For example, he deliberately designed the cinematic future with the help of experts from NASA or the IBM, not “just” with artists. This is only one way how healthcare could benefit from adopting Kubrick’s methods: by letting people outside of the medical industry change current practices for the better. There are plenty of other usefu...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 28, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: TMF Tags: Empowered Patients Healthcare Design artificial intelligence astronomy future IBM Medicine movies science fiction scifi technology Source Type: blogs
Heads They Win, Tails We Lose - Non-Profit Hospital ExecutivesPaid Generously After They Were Shown the Door
OnHealth Care Renewal, we have been decrying American health care dysfunction since 2004. For years, the US consistently has had the most expensive health care system of any developed country. For that exhorbitant price, it provides at best medicocre access to and quality of care. Thelatest (2017) international comparison of health systems produced by the Commonwealth Fund shows that the US spends about 16% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on health care, compared to less than 12% spent by 10 other countries. The US ranked no better than fifth on performance rankings measuring care process, acces...
Source: Health Care Renewal - December 10, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: Broward Health contracts executive compensation generic managers intimidation managerialism ' coup d etat non-disparagement clause perverse incentives quality University of North Carolina Source Type: blogs
Heads They Win, Tails We Lose - Non-Profit Hospital Executives Paid Generously After They Were Shown the Door
OnHealth Care Renewal, we have been decrying American health care dysfunction since 2004. For years, the US consistently has had the most expensive health care system of any developed country. For that exhorbitant price, it provides at best medicocre access to and quality of care. Thelatest (2017) international comparison of health systems produced by the Commonwealth Fund shows that the US spends about 16% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on health care, compared to less than 12% spent by 10 other countries. The US ranked no better than fifth on performance rankings measuring care process, acces...
Source: Health Care Renewal - December 10, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: Broward Health contracts executive compensation generic managers intimidation managerialism ' coup d etat non-disparagement clause perverse incentives quality University of North Carolina Source Type: blogs
Doctors Should Play Board Games to Get Better At Teamwork
The objective of the game is to remove jargon from explaining conditions, diseases, treatments. For example, you pick a card for example with the word migraine on it, while on the back of the card you also get 5 words to avoid. A brilliant way to force out jargon from the language of medicine!
4) Healing Blade: the (board) Game of Thrones for learning antibiotics
As a medical student, you have to memorize plenty of information, which takes a lot of time and energy. And most of the times, there is no rational or logical explanation behind the labels, titles or a huge bulk of the material in general. Nerdcore Medical’s b...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 15, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Healthcare Design Medical Education board games future gamification gc4 Health 2.0 Hospital Innovation Medicine Source Type: blogs
The Future of Radiology and Artificial Intelligence
What if an algorithm could tell you whether you have cancer based on your CT scan or mammography exam? While I am certain that radiologists’ creative work will be necessary in the future to solve complex issues and supervising diagnostic processes; AI will definitely become part of their daily routine in diagnosing simpler cases and taking over repetitive tasks. So rather than getting threatened by it, we should familiarize with how it could help change the course of radiology for the better.
Radiologists who use AI will replace those who don’t
There is a lot of hype and plenty of fear around artificial intelligence an...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 29, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Radiology AI artificial intelligence cancer CT scanning gc4 Health Healthcare ibm watson Innovation medical imaging MRI technology Source Type: blogs
" The Most Complicated Piece of Health Care is the Revenue " (Say What?) - The Shameless Managerialism of a Hospital CEO
IntroductionManagerialism, in my humble opinion, is one of the major reasons why the US health care system is so dysfunctional. We have long discussed how people whom we first called "generic managers" have taken over health care. Increasingly, health care organizations, including hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, health insurance companies, government agencies, etc are now led by people with management training, but not necessarily with any training or background in medicine, biomedical research, epidemiology, public health, or health care policy. We began noting how suchgeneric managers often prioritize sh...
Source: Health Care Renewal - June 2, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: generic management generic managers managerialism mission-ignorant management Source Type: blogs
Never forget the patients we do not see
In medicine, we speak of “seeing patients” when we are rounding in the hospital or caring for those who come to our clinics. But what about those people who may be sick but do not seek care? What is our responsibility to the patients we do not see?
This question takes on greater urgency in the current political climate, as patients face the threat of losing health insurance. Renewed efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act leave millions wondering whether they will be covered.
For me, as a physician practicing in the safety net, abstract numbers evoke the very real stories of my uninsured patients. One of...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 6, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/dave-a-chokshi" rel="tag" > Dave A. Chokshi, MD, MSc < /a > Tags: Physician Primary care Source Type: blogs
Are Silent Seizures a Symptom of Alzheimer's Disease?
While I was taking care of my mom, Dotty, I often worried about seizures. Silent Seizures.My mother often suffered from severe headaches particularly in the morning. This was an ongoing problem that would come and go. The research below indicates that the silent seizures occurred while patients were sleeping..I actually received training on what to look for, and the signs and symptoms of seizures.6 reasons why you might have to put someone with dementia in a memory care facility or nursing homeBy Bob DeMarcohttp://www.alzheimersreadingroom.comSubscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomEmail:I clearly remember our doctor...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - May 6, 2017 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer's care caring for dementia patients at home dementia care dementia confusion family caregiving home care memory care facility nursing home seizures in alzheimer patients Source Type: blogs
Not Really Insurance: The Pre-Existing Condition Debate
By DAVID DRANOVE and CRAIG GARTHWAITE
The recent debate over the potential repeal and replacement of the ACA, with the current focus on coverage for preexisting conditions, has drawn a great deal of attention to the concept of health insurance. While our political leaders are constantly talking about it, few of them seem to understand the “insurance” component of health insurance. As a result, much of what they say about preexisting condition coverage is gibberish. We are here to set the record straight.
At its most basic level, insurance provides protection against the risk of unexpected financial losses. We focus o...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 6, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Free Rider Insurance Pre-Existing Condition risk Source Type: blogs
