HealthTech Magazines May 17, 2024
By Teray Johnson, Director, Data Automation and Transformation, Lifepoint Health
In 2020, hospitals across the world were in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic. Burnout was rampant among administrative and clinical staff. The promise of the EHR to reduce physicians’ and nurses’ burnout and administrative burden had failed to be fulfilled during a crisis in which time was paramount, with lives hanging in the balance. The pandemic caused innovation began to bubble up from hospitals’ leaders and frontline staff, ranging from hospital-at-home to automating clinical decision-making processes within the EHR to alleviate clinicians’ administrative burden and allow them to practice at the top of their licenses. However, the abatement of the pandemic did not end the quest for...