Lexology September 16, 2024
This series explores legal issues related to physician burnout and potential solutions. Our first post addressed how healthcare organizations can foster the psychological safety and emotional wellbeing of their physicians. Clients regularly report that charting and documenting, and communicating with patients via EMR is a substantial contributor to physician burnout. Here, we discuss artificial intelligence as a potential way to attract, support and retain clinicians overwhelmed by ever-growing to-do lists, allowing them to focus on delivering clinical care.
Our team advises clients evaluating potential AI solutions in healthcare on a range of topics, including AI governance principles, and ongoing risk mitigation and monitoring. AI can reduce physician workloads, and below we cover several potential high-impact options to mitigate physician burnout....