Innovative technologies improving stroke care and physician burnout
Zoë Sebastian from RapidAI shares how novel solutions are making a meaningful impact on the delivery of care, reducing physician burnout, and ultimately improving patient outcomes in stroke care and beyond.
Over the past three years, we have become increasingly attune to the extreme levels of physician burnout around the world. While at the time, people, even those within healthcare, largely attributed these extreme levels of burnout to the enormous strain caused by COVID-19, many physicians felt that the pandemic was only one of many (albeit the most extreme) factors contributing to a problem that had been growing for years. Another of the largest contributors to physician burnout and frustration being workflow. 80% of physician burnout is due to workflow issues
Some studies suggest that as much as 40% of a clinician’s time is wasted each day through redundant or manual processes, unnecessary repetition, and inefficiencies like poor utilisation of resources. The impact of these workflow challenges can manifest in many different ways, including poor care-team communication, slower decision-making and time to treatment, and errors and mistakes that indirectly or directly impact patient outcomes. While each hospital and department faces unique workflow challenges, some technologies are showing great promise in measuring how care teams align to deliver better care.
“Being able to view images for patients referred from other sites sounds quite easy, but it can be very difficult – particularly for hugely time-sensitive clinical scenarios like hyper acute stroke management where time is brain,” said Dr Blight. Since implementing RapidAI’s specialty- specific stroke technology that eliminates the need to go through complex NHS network structures and allows him and his team to share patient scans between network hospitals and care teams more quickly, Dr Blight said it has significantly reduced delays in decision-making...Read more
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