Solving Healthcare’s Big Epidemic—Physician Burnout

As someone who has spent years focusing on improving patient outcomes, I’ve seen a distressing shift in the work of physicians, one that is no fault of their own.

The job has become less and less focused on patients, and more and more preoccupied with the back-office beast of modern healthcare—the electronic health record (EHR)—and the attention and time it requires. Ultimately this takes away from caring for patients. Even in the outpatient setting, the need to use EHRs is slowing down treatment. 

As healthcare policy and practices have evolved in recent years, it has become increasingly difficult for doctors to focus on what matters most—the patient. Administrative and data-entry tasks have gotten more time-consuming and at times seem all-consuming. Regulatory compliance is unnecessarily laborious. Keeping current with the latest medical research is a constant struggle.

The full Forbes article can be viewed at this link.