ICT&health March 24, 2025
Bureaucracy consumes around 50% of physicians’ time. Tasks like documentation, prescription management, and appointment scheduling take precious hours away from patient care. Implementing smart technological solutions and process improvements can significantly alleviate this burden. Where to start?
Automate clinical documentation
Healthcare professionals often struggle with cumbersome IT systems that slow them down rather than help. Simply put, doctors hate their computers or, rather, electronic health records (EHR). They are often user-unfriendly. However, that can be often easily changed.
Customizable EHRs can cut down documentation time by allowing physicians to design workflow-specific templates, utilize integrated drug databases, and even automate patient instructions. Speech-to-text technology also offers a hands-free approach to note-taking, further reducing screen time. AI-powered documentation tools such as PatientNotes.AI...