Burnout in the Age of COVID-19

<p>These feature stories dig deep into the causes of burnout for employees across healthcare during the COVID-19 crisis. CIOs, clinicians, IT developers, patients and others offer advice on how to combat the stressors that lead to burnout – and describe how technology can both hurt and help during this stressful time.</p>

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Pandemic-era burnout: How EHR vendors are redesigning UI and UX to battle stress

In our seventh and final feature on burnout, experts at Epic, Cerner, Allscripts and Mad*Pow discuss health IT usability problems and solutions, and describe where user experience is headed.

By Bill Siwicki | December 14, 2020

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Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

In this sixth story in our burnout series, five physicians who have been overseeing telemedicine programs during this unprecedented surge discuss stress and ways to survive it.

By Bill Siwicki | November 23, 2020

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Pandemic-era burnout: Nurses in the trenches say technology hurts and helps

Beyond the stress of increasing patient volumes and emotionally draining hospital shifts, RNs are grappling with alert and alarm fatigue, burdensome documentation, and EHR usability. But they’re finding ways to cope – and AI and automation are helping.

By Bill Siwicki | November 9, 2020

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Pandemic-era burnout: One consumer’s tiring, tech-enabled journey to find memory care for a parent

The first in a new feature story series on burnout in healthcare during the COVID-19 crisis, this personal essay shows how healthcare consumers – just like clinicians, CIOs, vendor employees and others – are being worn down by the demands of distance and disruption, but also being helped by technology.

By Bill Siwicki | September 21, 2020

Burnout in the Age of COVID-19

Pandemic-era burnout: How EHR vendors are redesigning UI and UX to battle stress

Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

Pandemic-era burnout: Nurses in the trenches say technology hurts and helps

Pandemic-era burnout: One consumer’s tiring, tech-enabled journey to find memory care for a parent

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