Background Healthcare workers are beginning to worry about the next possible outbreak: cancer. The pandemic has caused patients to delay care and pass up preventive screening opportunities. In 2020, there were 10 million missed cancer screenings1. This can lead to more advanced stages of cancer and decreased life expectancy. Furthermore, the...
Abstract Innovations in patient engagement have been significantly falling behind. Patients lack information on services they may need or the cost for them. Furthermore, the pandemic continues to have lasting effects on society even after years since it first appeared. Patients have been putting off seeing their primary care physician. This...
Background - EHR Administrative Burdens Clinicians spend excessive time on EHR-related tasks, equating to more than half of their work-hours (1). This leads to less time collaborating with other healthcare professionals and less time treating patients. A study analyzed different EHR inboxes and found that more than half of the messages...
Background - Clinician Burnout Clinicians are spending excessive time on EHR systems which leads to burnout and less satisfaction with their work. Physicians spend more than half of their working time on EHR-related tasks1. This averages to be 4.5 hours while in the clinic, and 1.5 hours during their personal time1....
Abstract COVID-19 has increased physician burnout in the past few years. The current system involves one-way pagers and phone calls that require a standby clinician to answer and respond1. This results in clinicians requesting and receiving large amounts of information in an outdated system. The current systems lead to a breakdown...
