physician burnout

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Providers Spend More Time in Front of Computers than Patients, Study Concludes

Chris Nerney | Healthcare IT News | September 12, 2017

Primary care physicians spend more than half of their workdays in front of computer screens, reducing the amount of time they spend with patients, according to a new study by the University of Wisconsin and the American Medical Association (AMA). During a typical 11.4-hour workday, primary care physicians spent an average of 5.9 hours on data entry and other tasks with electronic health records (EHR) systems during and after clinical hours, researchers found...

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The Widespread Problem of Doctor Burnout

Pauline W. Chen | The New York Times | August 23, 2017

The patient, a powerfully built middle-aged restaurant worker, had awakened one morning with a tight pain in his shoulders that traveled down his right arm. At work, he could barely shrug his shoulders or turn his head. “My fingers were so weak,” he recalled, “that I couldn’t even get a good grip around a glass of water.” A senior doctor at a local clinic diagnosed a pinched nerve and prescribed a muscle relaxant. Two weeks later, only more incapacitated, the patient went to another clinic, where a younger doctor made the right diagnosis: A malignant tumor in his chest was pressing against a nerve to his arm...

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Vision for a Principled Redesign of Health Information Technology

Steven E. Waldren, MD, Deborah J. Cohen, PhD, Jacob M. Reider, MD, Jewell P. Carr, MD and Ciarán A. DellaFera, MD | Annals of Family Medicine | May 15, 2017

The mission for Family Medicine for America’s Health (FMAHealth) is to help people live healthier. To support this, a goal of the FMAHealth Technology Tactic Team is to envision a future state that involves the principled redesign and implementation of health information technology (IT) that optimally supports the health and health care of the US populace. Compared to other nations, the US health care system offers higher cost, lower quality health care to its people...

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Workplace Factors Contribute to Burnout in Family Physicians

Diana Phillips | Medscape | May 10, 2017

Family physicians who work in a hectic or chaotic environment, those who report high rates of job-related stress, and those who spend time at home working on electronic medical record (EMR) tasks may be particularly vulnerable to burnout, researchers report. In a study designed to assess workplace factors associated with burnout among family physicians, Monee Rassolian, MD, from Michigan State University, Flint, and colleagues administered an abbreviated burnout survey to a random sample of family physicians applying to take the 2016 American Board of Family Medicine Certification Examination. They report their findings online May 8 in JAMA Internal Medicine...

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Value-Based Care Summit

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
November 15, 2016 - 9:30am - 8:00pm
Location: 
Hyatt Regency Cambridge
575 Memorial Dr.
Boston-Cambridge, MA 02139
United States

At the Value-Based Care Summit, attendees will benefit from hearing leaders in the field of value-based care describe the landscape of value-based care, share best practices, and disclose actionable information for those working in the healthcare field. The Value-Based Care Summit offers an opportunity to network with executives from top physician practices and hospitals and to gain insight into value-based care through sessions with speakers such as Dr. Steven Strongwater of Atrius Health, Dr. Thomas Scornavacca of UMass Memorial Population Health, Betsy Hamptom of Population Health Reliant Medical Group, and Micky Tripathi of Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC)...

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