An Attempt to Make EHRs More Physician Friendly with Virtual Assistants

It's recognized that EHRs are a major cause of physician burnout due to the demands on their time for dictating notes and documenting various types of patient interactions (see:Relationship Between Clerical Burden and Characteristics of the Electronic Environment With Physician Burnout and Professional Satisfaction). Solutions for this problem include hiring scribes to manage the keyboard work for a physician (see:Greater Adoption of the Scribe Model for EMR Data Input) and the deployment of AI-enabled virtual scribes (see:This AI Software Company Just Raised $20 Million To Help Prevent Physician Burnout;Why"Virtual Assistants" Won't Remove EHR Pain Points Quickly). Here's a quote from this former article:The premise ofSuki AI is simple: It ’s Alexa for doctors. Similar to how people can order Amazon ’s voice-enabled digital assistant to set a reminder or tell them their schedule, doctors can use Suki to take notes during patient appointments and those notes will automatically fill out electronic health records (EHRs). That’s increasingly important as doctors spend more time logging data and less face time with patients.A 2017 study from Annals of Family Medicine found that doctors spend almost two hours on tasks related to EHRs for every hour of direct patient care. Decreasing time with patients can lead to symptoms of burnout, including emotional exhaustion and depression, according to the Mayo Clinic.I think that it's misleading for th...
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