Using Technology to Fight EHR Burnout – #HITsm Chat Topic

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 12/1 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Gabe Charbonneau, MD (@gabrieldane) on the topic of “Using Technology to Fight EHR Burnout.”

We live in confusing times. The marriage of technology and medicine is on the cusp of game changing breakthroughs. There is so much promise with deep learning/AI, big data, and the exponential growth in processing speed and storage, just to name a few. So, how is it that we are yet to get out of the dark ages when it comes to the EHR?

Physician burnout is a real problem. It seems like there is a new article put out weekly on the topic. Study after study points fingers of blame at the EHR. The pain from data entry and systems that don’t flow for clinicians is at an all time high. “Too many clicks”, and too many docs spending “pajama time” charting at home.

It has to get better.

While tech has been identified as a top contributor to the problem, it also has the potential to be a huge part of the solution.

Join us as we dive into this topic during this week’s #HITsm chat using the following questions.

Topics for This Week’s #HITsm Chat:

T1: Why is the EHR such a major driver of burnout in medicine? We’ve heard the common answers of “too many clicks” and increased clerical burden, but what else? Let’s dig deeper. #hitsm

T2: Who is happiest with their EHR and why? What can we learn from them? #hitsm

T3: What current technologies are the best for reducing EHR burnout? #hitsm

T4: What is the most exciting emerging technology for decreasing EHR burnout? #hitsm

T5: When should we expect to see the first wave of major improvements in EHR user experience for clinicians? What will it look like? #hitsm

Bonus: How can we take steps today to start moving the burnout needle in the right direction? #HITsm

Upcoming #HITsm Chat Schedule
12/8 – EHR, Patient Portals and OpenNotes: Making OpenNotes Work Well
Hosted by Homer Chin (@chinhom) and Amy Fellows (@afellowsamy) from @MyOpenNotes)

12/15 – What’s holding HealthIT from soaring to the Cloud?
Hosted by David Fuller (@genkidave)

12/22 – Holiday Break

12/29 – Holiday Break

We look forward to learning from the #HITsm community! As always, let us know if you’d like to host a future #HITsm chat or if you know someone you think we should invite to host.

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About the author

John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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