Clinician Burnout News and Resources for Healthcare

How Virtual Nursing Can Help Fortify a Workforce in Crisis

January 11, 2024 - The COVID-19 pandemic hit an already beleaguered nursing workforce hard, driving stress, burnout, and resignations among nurses to record highs. The urgent need to address nurse workflow issues and better support them has sparked fresh interest in the virtual nursing model among healthcare provider organizations. Though the model itself is not new — the first recorded use of...

Telehealth Use May Increase Physicians’ EHR Workload

November 01, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

Telehealth use during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with an increase in the time physicians spent working in the EHR, though this work was largely related to documenting visits rather than...

Why a New Provider Collaborative is Going All-in on Hybrid Care

July 13, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

Though telehealth use has fallen from pandemic highs, the care modality has remained popular among healthcare providers and patients. Now, health systems are tasked with implementing virtual care alongside in-person services to support the...

How Providence is Leveraging RPM to Alleviate Clinician Burnout

June 08, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

Evidence that remote patient monitoring (RPM) can enhance healthcare delivery and improve patient outcomes is growing. But, if these services are not implemented effectively, they can exacerbate an ongoing and pervasive problem in...

Ensuring Telehealth Implementation Doesn’t Exacerbate Clinician Burnout

January 17, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

Like many clinicians, Eve Cunningham, MD, has experienced burnout, though she didn't recognize it until years later. "I mean, you get to a point where you just hit the ceiling, where you just can't take anymore," she said in a...

Telehealth Use Linked to More After-Hours Work for Providers

August 10, 2022 by Mark Melchionna

A study published in JMIR Medical Informatics shows that higher telehealth use may lead to more after-hours work for providers, particularly EHR-based work, potentially resulting in higher levels of...

How Providers Can Optimize Telehealth Workflows and Improve Experience

March 21, 2022 by Anuja Vaidya

The COVID-19 pandemic is directly responsible for the dramatic rise of telehealth. But as providers quickly established new or expanded existing virtual care programs, they may not have addressed certain workflow hurdles and human factors...

Healthcare Looks to Telehealth to Address Physician Burnout, Stress

August 14, 2020 by Eric Wicklund

Like any profession that deals in life and death, healthcare has a stress and burnout problem - to which telehealth could be the answer. Physicians have the highest suicide rate of any profession, losing 300 to 400 of their...

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