Cutting Healthcare’s Silos Down to Size at HIMSS18
What do you see when you look at the photo above?
Opportunity. A challenge. Necessary work to be done.
How about thinking about the reality that paper stacks like this still plague too many visits and experiences across healthcare?
Opportunity turns to ominous. It’s certainly a challenge—and not in a good way. More than anything else? The work becomes a hindrance, slowing the already-heavy plight of delivering informed, quality care.
To physicians, care teams, and staff members, the ever-present paper in healthcare doesn’t just represent a leftover antiquated burden. It’s a stark reminder of everything that stands between healthcare today and healthcare tomorrow—the existence of scutwork, the walls that kill collaboration, the extravagant piles of unaddressed costs. When you stack up all the numbers—
3,000 printed pages per patient record
49% of the day dedicated to documentation
77 pings of information per physician, per day
18% of $3.3 trillion industry spent on billing/insurance
95% of physicians face missing patient information
$10-$150k just to build a data interface
—it comes as no surprise that more than half of physicians are burned out. And what’s to blame? Insufficient tools, incomplete access to data and patient information, and an overwhelming and paralyzing amount of administrative burden.
The fact of the matter is:
Doctors and care staff shouldn’t be documenting hours upon hours all day long—and then after closing time.
Doctors, care staff, and leadership teams shouldn’t have to wait for information—and the right information—to aggregate itself.
Siloed systems, inactionable data, and moonshot initiatives that can’t scale for the greater good across healthcare aren’t good enough.
At next week’s HIMSS, we’re excited to break open our network and set paper loose across the conference floor. I’m joining forces with Steve Klasko, president and CEO of Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, to chat about physician burnout, the roots of burnout that lay deep in administrative work, and the necessity of physician engagement in healthcare’s landscape today.
And we’re doing something else exciting. Frequent flyers of our beloved boat show know that we’re always up to something fun at our booth… This year, we’re taking it to new heights with an experience that represents all of the above—friction, burnout, the burden of paper and everything it stands for—and provides an exciting path forward. I won’t share much more, but highly recommend checking it out if you’re going to HIMSS and have some time to explore…
It’s time to cut healthcare’s silos down to size, push the boundaries of what we experience today in anticipation of a better healthcare tomorrow. And hashing it all out at HIMSS, where innovators come to collaborate, create, and turn big keynotes into meaningful conversations? To me, that’s time well-spent.
What are you most excited to see, learn, hear at #HIMSS18 ?
Data Scientist | MBA | MSBA Candidate at Georgetown University
1 年Jonathan, thanks for sharing!
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6 年The stats in your article are amazing. Where did you get them from?
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6 年".... the burden of paper and everything it stands for..." health care reform is more than just insurance rates and special interest groups. It's about the human cost of inefficiencies. Doing something about waste, outdated modalities in administration and training that don't serve patient care is crucial. I look forward to seeing positive developments in this sphere. Thank you!
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6 年There IS a better more efficient way.
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6 年Thank you for sharing this information. It will be important for us to have the ability to share information across all electronic platforms. When we talk about silos, we need to consider the verbiage used. The issue talked about should be written for all “health professional teams.” Isolating “physicians“ from “care teams” and “staff” in the text silos the health team even more. Nationally and internationally, the health industry is promoting interprofessional collaboration, where we flattened the current hierarchy that exists. Let’s begin to model this effort in our marketing efforts as well.