As reported May 22, 2018 in Healthcare Finance by Susan Morse, Senior Editor at HIMSS, 82 percent of clinical and IT professionals surveyed by HIMSS Analytics report a high level of stress from work-related interruptive texts, alerts, alarms, pages and phone calls, and that these interruptions contribute to stress and burnout. Says Morse,

“Hospitals should pay attention because stress can lead to burnout and physician and nurse turnover. The resulting expenses are compounded by well-known physician and nurse shortages amid competition to fill positions…

Nurses spend 21 percent of their 12-hour shift interacting with the EHR and 33 percent total with technology, according to an UPMC study cited by the researchers.”

For the full article, go to: https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/82-clinicians-it-leaders-blame-burnout-interruptions-tech-tools

There’s good news for stressed-out clinicians in acute care environments and in reducing the amount of time clinicians need to interact with technology – medical device integration (MDI) with the electronic health records (EHR). MDI is frequently cited by clinicians as their greatest satisfier within an EHR integration project; it saves them time to otherwise focus on other patient care, and reduces the interruptions of manually entering patient data by automating communications with the EHR.

Such as at Partners HealthCare (Boston), as Boston Globe reported June 1, 2015:

“After two years as an intensive care nurse at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Aqua Bang will no longer need to carry a pen and binder to record the vital signs of her patients. Instead, that information will instantly flow from bedside monitors to each patient’s computerized health record, part of a massive information technology system launched over the weekend by Partners HealthCare.” For the full article, go to: https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/05/31/partners-launches-billion-electronic-health-records-system/oo4nJJW2rQyfWUWQlvydkK/story.html

At MDii (Medical Device Integration and Informatics), we have experienced this clinician satisfaction first-hand, having helped numerous hospitals integrate thousands of medical devices with their EHR system.

For MDI resources, and more information about how we assist hospitals achieve MDI, visit us at www.MDii.co.