Can AI fix clinician burnout?
It’s no secret that the severe shortage of healthcare personnel has seriously compromised medical care. Some experts say we’re rationing healthcare.
Burnout is a hot topic with no simple answers to reverse the mass exodus of medical personnel. However, there are effective tools to help simplify and reduce repetitive tasks that would free up more time for patient care. And people are on both sides of this discussion as well when it comes to talking about the use of automation, technology and artificial intelligence in healthcare.
We’ll forgo re-reporting some of the stats that support why we need to provide medical personnel with burnout relief right now. Here are a few proven areas where technology of one kind or another can free up healthcare’s most precious commodity: time.
- Substitute technology and machines for high-volume, highly repetitive and highly manual workflows.
- Deploy robotic processes, machine learning, natural-language processing and other approaches to improve the way healthcare is delivered.
- Recognize that advances in artificial intelligence, access to untapped data and the availability of cloud-based infrastructure can expand what’s achievable.
To round out this discussion, our link below gives an overview of startups that offer proven time-saving artificial intelligence technology in areas such as triage response, doctors’ notes transcription and medical billing.