# Clinician Resistance * **Definition:** Clinician Resistance refers to the reluctance or opposition of healthcare professionals to adopt new practices, technologies, or changes in clinical protocols, often due to concerns about efficacy, workflow disruption, or lack of training. * **Taxonomy:** Healthcare Topics / Clinician Resistance ## News * Selected news on the topic of **Clinician Resistance**, for healthcare technology leaders * 663 news items are in the system for this topic * Posts have been filtered for tech and healthcare-related keywords | Date | Title | Source | | --- | --- | --- | | 5/27/2025 | [**Digital Divide Deepens? Supreme Court Ruling Looms Over Rural Healthcare Telecom Program**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/digital-health/digital-divide-deepens-supreme-court-ruling-looms-over-rural-healthcare-telecom-program/) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 5/27/2025 | [**Rural Healthcare Challenges: How AI & Telemedicine Can Improve Access - HIT Consultant**](https://hitconsultant.net/2025/05/27/rural-healthcare-challenges-how-ai-telemedicine-can-improve-access/) | [[HIT Consultant]] | | 5/27/2025 | [**Tackling data inequities: How healthcare leaders can improve the bottom line**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/tackling-data-inequities-how-healthcare-leaders-can-improve-the-bottom-line/) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 5/26/2025 | [**Sean Fadale, President and Chief Executive Officer, Nathan Littauer Hospital and Nursing Home**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/podcasts/podcasts-beckers-hospital-review/sean-fadale-president-and-chief-executive-officer-nathan-littauer-hospital-and-nursing-home/) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 5/20/2025 | [**The government should invest now in healthcare cybersecurity, says HSCC**](http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/government-should-invest-now-healthcare-cybersecurity-says-hscc) | [[Healthcare IT News]] | | 5/14/2025 | [**VirtuAlly and Teledigm Health Forge Partnership to Bring Virtual Nursing to Rural ... - PR Newswire**](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/virtually-and-teledigm-health-forge-partnership-to-bring-virtual-nursing-to-rural-healthcare-systems-302454593.html) | [[PR Newswire]] | | 5/12/2025 | [**The Risk to Rural Health Networks: Q&A with Marcel Botha - Pharmaceutical Executive**](http://www.pharmexec.com/view/risk-rural-health-networks-marcel-botha) | [[PharmExec]] | | 5/5/2025 | [**Reimbursement Trends May Reshape Rural Emergency Healthcare Services**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/strategy/reimbursement-trends-may-reshape-rural-emergency-healthcare-services/) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 5/1/2025 | [**Congress Eyes Reimbursement Boost for Rural RPM Programs**](https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/innovation/congress-eyes-reimbursement-boost-rural-rpm-programs) | [[HealthLeaders Media]] | | 4/30/2025 | [**How an Israeli Health System Launched the Nation's First Virtual Hospital Program**](https://www.healthitanswers.net/how-an-israeli-health-system-launched-the-nations-first-virtual-hospital-program/) | [[Health IT Answers]] | | 4/29/2025 | [**The Future Of Healthcare - AI And Telemedicine's Expanding Role - Forbes**](https://www.forbes.com/sites/garydrenik/2025/04/29/the-future-of-healthcareai-and-telemedicines-expanding-role/) | [[Forbes]] | | 4/29/2025 | [**Iowa Senate passes PBM bill: 4 things to know**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/pharmacy/iowa-senate-passes-pbm-bill-4-things-to-know/) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 4/18/2025 | [**Wasteful Spending on Remote Monitoring? New Report Urges Policy Overhaul**](https://hitconsultant.net/2025/04/18/wasteful-spending-on-remote-monitoring-new-report-urges-policy-overhaul/) | [[HIT Consultant]] | | 3/19/2025 | [**Rural hospitals want to modernize, but tight finances post challenges - Healthcare IT News**](https://www.healthcareitnews.com/video/rural-hospitals-want-modernize-tight-finances-post-challenges) | [[Healthcare IT News]] | | 2/18/2025 | [**AI Should Stand for Augmented Implementation: Enhancing Healthcare Through Technology**](https://medium.com/beingwell/ai-should-stand-for-augmented-implementation-enhancing-healthcare-through-technology-c65657d47482) | [[Medium]] | | 1/30/2025 | [**AI's Expanding Role in Healthcare for 2025**](https://thehealthcaretechnologyreport.com/ais-expanding-role-in-healthcare-for-2025/) | [[Healthcare Technology Report]] | | 1/10/2025 | [**Healthcare Staffing Shortage and Burnout - 2025 Health IT Predictions**](https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2025/01/10/healthcare-staffing-shortage-and-burnout-2025-health-it-predictions/) | [[Healthcare IT Today]] | | 12/18/2024 | [**Benefits and Challenges of Integrating AI and Machine Learning into EHR Systems**](https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2024/12/18/benefits-and-challenges-of-integrating-ai-and-machine-learning-into-ehr-systems/) | [[Healthcare IT Today]] | | 12/7/2024 | [**Weekly Roundup - December 7, 2024 - Healthcare IT Today**](https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2024/12/07/weekly-roundup-december-7-2024/) | [[Healthcare IT Today]] | | 10/8/2024 | [**Healthcare Authority Newsletter - October 2024 #1**](https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/healthcare-authority-newsletter-october-8883500/) | [[JD Supra]] | | 8/12/2024 | [**Create Health Ventures Launches $21M VC Fund for Digital Health - HIT Consultant**](https://hitconsultant.net/2024/08/12/create-health-ventures-fund-launch/) | [[HIT Consultant]] | | 7/24/2024 | [**Microsoft collaborates with Mass General Brigham and University of Wisconsin-Madison to ...**](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/microsoft-collaborates-with-mass-general-brigham-and-university-of-wisconsin-madison-to-further-advance-ai-foundation-models-for-medical-imaging-302204990.html) | [[PR Newswire]] | | 7/1/2024 | [**Hospital C-suites' AI plans crystallize**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/hospital-c-suites-ai-plans-crystalize.html) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 6/22/2024 | [**Weekly Roundup - June 22, 2024**](https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2024/06/22/weekly-roundup-june-22-2024/) | [[Healthcare IT Today]] | | 9/24/2023 | [**Policymakers must take action on the physician shortage**](https://www.statnews.com/2023/09/25/rural-doctor-shortage-congress-redi-act-medical-school-loans/) | [[STAT]] | ## Topic Overview (Some LLM-derived content — please confirm with above primary sources) ### Key Players - **Black Book Research**: A research firm that conducts surveys revealing barriers to healthcare technology adoption, including clinician resistance due to inadequate training. - **Medscape**: Conducts surveys among clinicians to gauge attitudes towards AI integration in healthcare. - **Corti**: An AI platform providing real-time feedback to clinicians to enhance their capabilities during patient interactions. - **Providence**: A health system implementing a comprehensive AI governance strategy to enhance patient safety and reduce clinician burnout. - **Abridge**: Develops AI technology to automate clinical documentation, enhancing clinician-patient interactions. - **Nabla**: An ambient AI assistant for clinicians that focuses on improving clinician efficiency and patient care through advanced language models and privacy-focused AI governance. - **Peterson Center on Healthcare**: An organization that emphasizes the need for policy changes in remote monitoring technologies to ensure value without unnecessary spending. - **UNC Health**: Expanding the use of Abridge AI to improve clinician workflows and patient care. - **Cleveland Clinic**: A healthcare institution highlighting the challenges of recruiting IT talent for AI initiatives. - **Hippocratic AI**: Developed an AI Agent App Store for clinicians to co-create AI solutions aimed at enhancing patient care and operational efficiency. - **Humana Inc.**: A healthcare company advocating for value-based care models that improve patient outcomes and clinician experiences. - **Hallmark**: A healthcare technology company focused on workforce management and operational transformation, enhancing clinician engagement through its Einstein II solution. - **Philips**: A healthcare technology company that emphasizes the need for improved healthcare delivery and clinician well-being. - **Wolters Kluwer Health**: A company predicting significant advancements in AI for healthcare, focusing on clinician satisfaction and patient outcomes. - **Innovaccer Inc.**: A health technology firm that focuses on AI's potential to alleviate clinician burnout and enhance operational efficiency. - **Vitalchat**: A leader in virtual nursing technology aimed at reducing healthcare provider workloads and enhancing patient outcomes. - **athenahealth**: Integrates generative AI into ambulatory care practices to alleviate administrative burdens for clinicians. - **Ambience Healthcare**: Provider of AI technology for clinical documentation improvement and care coordination. ### Partnerships and Collaborations - **Hippocratic AI and Adtalem Global Education**: Partnering to create a curriculum for training clinicians in AI applications within healthcare. - **Abridge Research Collaborative (ARC)**: A clinical research initiative focused on the impact of ambient AI in healthcare, co-chaired by experts from Abridge and Yale. - **Suki and Google Cloud**: Collaboration to enhance Suki Assistant with patient summaries and Q&A functionality to reduce clinician cognitive load. - **Abridge and athenahealth**: Collaborating to integrate generative AI capabilities into ambulatory care practices, enhancing documentation processes. - **John Muir Health and Ambience Healthcare**: Partnership for enterprise-wide rollout of AI technology for clinical documentation. - **Reimagine Care and Moffitt Cancer Center**: Partnership to provide virtual and at-home care for cancer patients. - **Color Health and OpenAI**: Collaborate to improve cancer care through AI, focusing on risk-adjusted screening and pre-treatment processes. - **NorthStar Anesthesia and EyeSouth Partners**: A successful partnership that has improved patient outcomes through a collaborative triad model involving anesthesiologists, CRNAs, and operations teams. - **Microsoft and Epic Systems**: Collaborated to develop an AI-driven workflow solution that helps nurses document patient interactions more efficiently. - **VirtuAlly and Teledigm Health**: A partnership aimed at providing virtual nursing services to rural healthcare systems, enhancing patient care and reducing nurse turnover. - **Microsoft and Mass General Brigham**: Collaboration to enhance AI in medical imaging and improve radiologists' experiences. - **Abridge and Wolters Kluwer Health**: Partnering to integrate ambient AI documentation with UpToDate. - **Nabla and CHAI**: Nabla joined the Coalition for Health AI to establish best practices and frameworks for health AI validation. - **Ellipsis Health and Ceras Health**: Partner to enhance mental health care using AI-powered voice biomarker technology. - **MATRIX AI Consortium**: Collaborates with multiple organizations to advance AI research in healthcare, involving around 87 scientists. - **Commure and Augmedix**: Commure's acquisition of Augmedix to enhance AI-backed clinical documentation. - **RevelAi Health and Zimmer Biomet**: A multi-year partnership to develop generative AI-powered orthopedic solutions. ### Innovations, Trends, and Initiatives - **Telemedicine Growth**: Increased use of telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to improved clinician satisfaction and potential burnout reduction. - **AI for Burnout Reduction**: Abridge's technology aims to combat clinician burnout by automating tedious tasks. - **Real-Time Feedback**: Corti Assistant provides live feedback to clinicians, enhancing decision-making and reducing medical errors. - **Ambient AI**: Emerging technology that transforms patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes, improving documentation efficiency. - **Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)**: Legislation like the RPM Access Act aims to improve reimbursement for RPM services in rural areas, addressing financial barriers to technology adoption. - **Healthcare AI Agent App Store**: Allows clinicians to create AI agents for patient care, emphasizing clinician collaboration in AI development. - **AI in Healthcare**: AI technologies are being adopted to improve patient care and operational efficiency, with a focus on reducing clinician burnout. - **Generative AI in Clinical Documentation**: Pilot programs using generative AI to improve clinical documentation efficiency and clinician satisfaction. - **Data-Driven Staffing**: NorthStar Anesthesia employs a data-driven approach to maintain staffing levels and optimize operational efficiencies, contributing to a high clinician retention rate. - **User-Centered Design**: CalmWave emphasizes involving healthcare professionals in the development of their SaaS platform to meet real-world clinical demands. - **AI Integration**: Healthcare organizations are increasingly adopting AI to streamline workflows, reduce clinician burnout, and enhance patient care. - **Value-Based Care**: Models that prioritize preventive care and incentivize better health outcomes, leading to improved patient experiences. - **Ambient AI Technology**: Utilized to streamline clinical workflows by capturing doctor-patient conversations and converting them into structured information. - **Generative AI**: Emerging as a transformative tool in healthcare, particularly for administrative tasks, with potential clinical applications being explored. - **AI Education Initiatives**: Calls for significant changes in medical education to integrate AI training, emphasizing data science and machine learning. - **AI in Documentation**: Suki Assistant automates clinical documentation, reducing documentation time by an average of 72%. - **AI in EHRs**: The integration of AI into Electronic Health Record systems aims to enhance decision-making, automate tasks, and improve population health management. - **Generative AI in Imaging**: Microsoft's partnerships aim to leverage generative AI to improve workflow efficiencies in radiology. ### Challenges and Concerns - **Clinician Resistance**: Resistance to adopting new technologies like AI and EHRs due to usability issues, increased administrative burdens, and concerns about data privacy. - **Clinician Burnout**: A significant concern in healthcare, exacerbated by staffing shortages and administrative burdens, leading to high turnover rates. - **Staffing Shortages**: The nursing shortage is exacerbating clinician resistance, particularly in rural areas, leading to limited access to care and increased stress among existing staff. - **Burnout and Workload**: Clinician burnout is exacerbated by administrative tasks and after-hours workloads, leading to concerns about patient care delays. - **Skepticism Towards Automation**: Despite interest in AI, skepticism remains among clinicians regarding its effectiveness and impact on care quality. - **Burnout and Turnover**: High rates of clinician burnout and dissatisfaction with EHR systems contribute to turnover, posing financial repercussions for healthcare organizations. - **EHR Usability**: Many clinicians find electronic health records difficult to navigate, exacerbating workplace stress. - **Skepticism Towards AI**: There is ongoing skepticism among healthcare professionals regarding AI's role in diagnosis and treatment. - **AI Bias and Ethics**: Concerns regarding algorithmic bias in AI applications that could adversely affect patient care and clinician well-being. - **Knowledge Gap**: A significant knowledge gap exists among clinicians regarding AI, with only 10% feeling 'very knowledgeable' about its applications. - **Financial Constraints**: Rural healthcare systems face significant financial barriers to adopting new technologies, impacting their ability to modernize and improve care delivery. - **Recruitment of IT Talent**: Ongoing challenges in securing skilled IT professionals to support AI initiatives in healthcare. - **Return on Investment**: Health systems struggle to find a return on investment for AI tools due to lack of reimbursement and unclear benefits. - **Data Bias and Health Disparities**: Concerns regarding the ethical implications of AI in healthcare, particularly related to data bias and equitable care. - **Data Privacy and Security**: Concerns regarding data privacy and security are significant barriers to the successful integration of AI in healthcare.