HealthIT Answers November 3, 2020
By Dr. Jonathan Yoder, Family Medicine Physician and Practice Innovation Physician Champion, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Inlightened Expert
We all know – many of us too well – that healthcare is notoriously slow to change. While some areas move faster than others when it comes to innovation, there are those that have remained quite stagnant, like primary care. Consider this sobering statistic: A recent survey of 15,000 physicians found that the burnout rate for Family Medicine was 46% (above the overall average of 42% across all of healthcare).
The primary culprit of this higher-than-average rate of burnout: Administrative burden. Primary care has been struggling to manage increased demands and competing priorities – from Electronic Health Records (EMRs) to...
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