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Physicians are more stressed and burned out then ever before - and administrative burdens are a big contributing factor. Healthcare organizations can alleviate some of this stress with the help of AI technology.

One of COVID-19’s many consequences has been the life-changing increase of stress and work overload on clinical professionals. Dr Simon Wallace, CCIO of Nuance’s healthcare division explains how speech recognition technology can ease the pressure.

New research has revealed that 98% of clinicians have experienced burnout, and Covid has exacerbated existing feelings of exhaustion and overload. The study suggested introducing organisational interventions and systemised support may help alleviate some of that stress.

The first HIMSS study on public cloud use in Germany’s hospitals shows a high deployment level of cloud computing. On average, respondents rate public cloud solutions as more advantageous than on-premise solutions, however, they also express concerns with regard to data protection and compliance. 

Clinician burnout is a significant global challenge and healthcare technology can be both part of the problem and the solution. Join Nuance and a panel of European healthcare leaders to find out about initiatives to tackle burnout.

Physicians in Denmark, Finland and Sweden now have the opportunity to use a native-language conversational AI solution to effectively capture patient stories, reduce administrative workloads and improve care quality with an EHR-integrated solution. 

Speech-recognition tool enabled a Mississippi hospital to expand its AI-driven tools to support its CDI program.

In this continuation of our series about the financial wellbeing of rural and critical access hospitals, we explore the importance of clinical documentation improvement (CDI) programs and how to establish one at your facility.

Financial pressures, limited resources, and changing regulations contribute to bottom-line risk and the alarming result is often rural hospital failure and closure. In this new series from Dr. Robert Budman, we explore what’s behind this and, more importantly, what rural and critical access hospitals can do to keep the doors open.

A Finnish site visit to Berlin’s Charité hospital, which formed part of the recent HEALTH Conference in Berlin, kicked off some interesting discussions when comparing the two healthcare systems.