Nuance announced that Johns Hopkins has implemented Nuance’s conversational AI-powered clinical documentation solutions, including Dragon Medical One and Dragon Medical Advisor, to advance its “Joy at Johns Hopkins Medicine” initiative to help combat physician burnout. Nuance’s solutions are purpose-built to augment the physician’s role and reduce clinical documentation time, placing a greater emphasis on meaningful patient-provider interactions.Combatting Clinician BurnoutBurnout is an
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Can A Peace Treaty Between Doctors & EHRs Tackle Physician Burnout?
It may be difficult to recall now, what with the ongoing Cerner deployment and recent challenges that had little to do with technology, but there was a time when the Department of Veterans Affairs was considered the gold standard for healthcare IT.VA was out front with the initial development in the 1970s of the VistA system, which would come to be widely recognized and frequently honored. Indeed, when VA was overhauled in the 1990s, VistA was the primary tool that enabled the success of new
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Spok and Bernoulli Health Partner to Boost Clinical Alarm Management
Spok, Inc., a provider of healthcare communications, today announced a partnership with Bernoulli® Health, the developer of the advanced Bernoulli One™ clinical surveillance, medical device integration (MDI), and real-time data analytics platform. This partnership, Spok Alarm Surveillance powered by Bernoulli, will boost clinical alarm management by capturing and evaluating real-time patient data and alarms from multiple clinical systems and delivering actionable alerts to the right caregiver
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Study: EMRs Cited As Top Trigger for Physician Burnout
74% of US primary care physicians (PCPs) and ER doctors do not feel their healthcare facility or practice is taking effective steps to address and prevent physician burnout, according to a new microsurvey by InCrowd, a provider of real-time market intelligence to life sciences and healthcare firms. The data represents a mid-year checkpoint on physician perceptions as Affordable Care Act (ACA) measures change the nature of doctoring, and as at least 30 major teaching hospitals undertake
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