AI usage in combating physician burnout by Amelie Zhang

Combating physician burnout with AI

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CAUSES

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High workload

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Many physicians work 40-70 hours per week

time-consuming repetition

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a lot of physicians are made to fill out a lot of work forms and digital documents, which is taxing to repeat over and over again for patients.

Problem

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a lot of physicians are experiencing high levels of burnout and are not able to provide as high of a quality of care as possible.

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third leading cause of deaths in clinics are related to burnout/lack of attentive-ness

EFFECTS

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burnout severity

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burnout is so severe that a survey concluded that nearly 19,000 physicians found that one third reported moderate or greater intention to leave or quit.

Solutions

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AI

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use ai to automate and streamline patient monitoring and diagnostics

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by using AI, the overall workload on physicians will be reduced by leaving the menial and time-consuming tasks to ai and helps physicians work on important tasks.