As a physician, you put in long hours and make sacrifices to provide top-quality care to your patients. But what if you're not being fully compensated for all that hard work? Studies show that up to 80% of physicians don't get paid for every hour worked. That's a staggering statistic that should give you [...]
Gone are the days when the role of a doctor was romanticized as a healer, now it has been replaced with mountains of paperwork, long hours of data entry, and a struggle to reconcile the need to see patients with administrative tasks that are necessary for the healthcare industry. A recent study by the [...]
Breaking old habits is never an easy feat, especially when it comes to our professional lives. As a physician, you have likely developed a routine for your practice, influenced by your experiences, observations, and the environment in which you work. However, with the ever-evolving medical field, it's important to adapt and modernize your approach. [...]
Doctors who work with athenahealth need a mobile rounding workflow solution like HybridChart for several reasons. One of the key benefits of HybridChart is that it syncs seamlessly with the athenahealth electronic health record (EHR) system. This allows for patient visibility, which is critical for doctors who need to access patient information on the [...]
Doctors are buried under mountains of paperwork and administrative tasks, leaving them with limited time for direct patient care. Despite the advancements in electronic medical records, processes such as hospital charge capture and census management still require manual recording, leading to a significant amount of time being spent on paperwork. A recent survey found [...]
There’s a long and menacing-sounding word with which you may be unfamiliar: nosocomephobia. It’s defined as an intense fear of hospitals, and even the bravest souls likely experience some form of this phobia upon admission. The prospect of a hospital stay, we can agree, is an emotional experience for all patients – fears, phobias, [...]
Does it feel like you are – quite literally – buried under mountains of paperwork these days? You’re not alone: Despite the “epic” (with a small AND capital e) evolution of electronic medical records, you’re still eyeball-deep in the kinds of administrative and menial tasks that keep you from pursuing your passion – healing [...]
Old habits are hard to break – which is why it’s amazing to behold how much abuse we’ll sign on for in the interest of keeping the status quo. Though one could argue that the very adoption of the iDevice – the one in your hand right now, likely – represents the embrace of [...]
Your productivity is under assault – mountains of paperwork are raining down on your practice, creating a barrier that’s standing between you and your passion for patient care. And there, atop the blockade, is the ultimate insult – inpatient census management, which stretches out like barbed wire. This continuing battle to manage your hospital-bound [...]
Inpatient medicine is unique. Unlike the singular relationship between patient and provider in the office, hospitalized patients are often cared for by a team of doctors and APPs, sometimes changing on a daily basis. How are these providers to relay information to each other? With each day there is another chapter of a patient’s [...]
