Leveraging AI, Analytics and Medical Robotics To Alleviate Caregiver Shortage and Physician Burnout in the Post-pandemic New Normal
MedCity News February 24, 2023
Emerging technologies hold the potential to protect doctors, nurses, caregivers, and first responders while driving up efficiencies for manual tasks and processes and enhancing productivity.
The catastrophic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic – from both a public health and an economic perspective – will stay with us for a long, long time to come. We will likely refer to the “pre-pandemic era” and “the post-pandemic era” as permanent markers in our lives.
One of the most significant impacts of the pandemic has been unprecedented physician burnout and an acute shortage of caregivers and in-home caregiving aides. According to results published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 63% of physicians reported at least one symptom of burnout at the end of 2021...