# Provider Burnout * **Definition:** Provider Burnout refers to a state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion experienced by healthcare professionals, characterized by feelings of cynicism, detachment, and a reduced sense of personal accomplishment, often resulting from prolonged stress and high demands in the healthcare environment. * **Taxonomy:** Healthcare Topics / Provider Burnout ## News * Selected news on the topic of **Provider Burnout**, for healthcare technology leaders * 3.1K news items are in the system for this topic * Posts have been filtered for tech and healthcare-related keywords | Date | Title | Source | | --- | --- | --- | | 5/22/2025 | [**How Can AI Help Transform Radiology?**](https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2025/05/how-can-ai-help-transform-radiology) | [[HealthTech Magazine]] | | 5/8/2025 | [**52 hospitals and health systems with great innovation programs - 2024**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/lists/51-hospital-and-health-systems-with-great-innovation-programs-2024/) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 4/29/2025 | [**Why Healthcare Organizations Must Prioritize AI Governance**](https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2025/04/why-healthcare-organizations-must-prioritize-ai-governance) | [[HealthTech Magazine]] | | 4/24/2025 | [**Nabla Expands Partnership with FQHC Neighborhood Healthcare, Rolling Out Ambient AI Assistant to All Clinicians**](https://hitconsultant.net/2025/04/24/nabla-expands-partnership-with-fqhc-neighborhood-healthcare/) | [[HIT Consultant]] | | 4/8/2025 | [**For hospital IT purchasers, resource strain and optimal ROI are top concerns**](https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/hospital-it-purchasers-resource-strain-and-optimal-roi-are-top-concerns) | [[Healthcare IT News]] | | 4/3/2025 | [**5 Steps for Creating A Better Healthcare Breakroom to Boost Nurse Morale and Retention**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/nursing/5-steps-for-creating-a-better-healthcare-breakroom-to-boost-nurse-morale-and-retention/) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 1/31/2025 | [**AI Roundup: Ambient recording for emergencies and more EHR enhancements**](https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/ai-roundup-ambient-recording-emergencies-and-more-ehr-enhancements) | [[Healthcare IT News]] | | 1/29/2025 | [**Core Mobile, Inc. and InfoVision Announce Strategic Partnership to Transform AI-Native Healthcare Enterprise Solutions**](http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250129948469/en/Core-Mobile-Inc.-and-InfoVision-Announce-Strategic-Partnership-to-Transform-AI-Native-Healthcare-Enterprise-Solutions/?feedref=JjAwJuNHiystnCoBq_hl-Q-tiwWZwkcswR1UZtV7eGe24xL9TZOyQUMS3J72mJlQ7fxFuNFTHSunhvli30RlBNXya2izy9YOgHlBiZQk2LOzmn6JePCpHPCiYGaEx4DL1Rq8pNwkf3AarimpDzQGuQ==) | [[Business Wire]] | | 1/29/2025 | [**Core Mobile, Inc. and InfoVision Announce Strategic Partnership to Transform AI-Native Healthcare Enterprise Solutions**](http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250129948469/en/Core-Mobile-Inc.-and-InfoVision-Announce-Strategic-Partnership-to-Transform-AI-Native-Healthcare-Enterprise-Solutions/?feedref=JjAwJuNHiystnCoBq_hl-RLXHJgazfQJNuOVHefdHP-D8R-QU5o2AvY8bhI9uvWSD8DYIYv4TIC1g1u0AKcacnnViVjtb72bOP4-4nHK5ieT3WxPE8m_kWI77F87CseT) | [[Business Wire]] | | 1/28/2025 | [**HEALWELL Acquires Control of Mutuo Health Solutions To Build Next Generation of AI ...**](https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2025/01/28/healwell-acquires-control-of-mutuo-health-solutions-to-build-next-generation-of-ai-powered-physician-co-pilots/) | [[Healthcare IT Today]] | | 1/14/2025 | [**2025 Tech Trends: 4 Healthcare IT Focus Areas**](https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2025/01/2025-tech-trends-4-healthcare-it-focus-areas) | [[HealthTech Magazine]] | | 1/11/2025 | [**Weekly Roundup - January 11, 2025 - Healthcare IT Today**](https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2025/01/11/weekly-roundup-january-11-2025/) | [[Healthcare IT Today]] | | 1/7/2025 | [**CORRECTION: 2025's Top-Rated EHR Vendors Across 40 Medical & Surgical Specialties**](https://www.newswire.com/news/correction-2025-s-top-rated-ehr-vendors-across-40-medical-surgical-22499877) | [[Newswire]] | | 12/26/2024 | [**The Business and Finance of Healthcare in 2025**](https://www.healthitanswers.net/the-business-and-finance-of-healthcare-in-2025/) | [[Health IT Answers]] | | 12/19/2024 | [**VSee Health Secures Teleradiology Contract with Leading Post-Acute Care Hospital System**](http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241219888575/en/VSee-Health-Secures-Teleradiology-Contract-with-Leading-Post-Acute-Care-Hospital-System/?feedref=JjAwJuNHiystnCoBq_hl-Q-tiwWZwkcswR1UZtV7eGe24xL9TZOyQUMS3J72mJlQ7fxFuNFTHSunhvli30RlBNXya2izy9YOgHlBiZQk2LOzmn6JePCpHPCiYGaEx4DL1Rq8pNwkf3AarimpDzQGuQ==) | [[Business Wire]] | | 12/19/2024 | [**VSee Health Secures Teleradiology Contract with Leading Post-Acute Care Hospital System**](http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241219888575/en/VSee-Health-Secures-Teleradiology-Contract-with-Leading-Post-Acute-Care-Hospital-System/?feedref=JjAwJuNHiystnCoBq_hl-RLXHJgazfQJNuOVHefdHP-D8R-QU5o2AvY8bhI9uvWSD8DYIYv4TIC1g1u0AKcacnnViVjtb72bOP4-4nHK5ieT3WxPE8m_kWI77F87CseT) | [[Business Wire]] | | 12/18/2024 | [**Healthcare AI News 12/18/24**](https://histalk2.com/2024/12/18/healthcare-ai-news-12-18-24/) | [[HISTalk]] | | 10/8/2024 | [**Prisma Health exec on rounding tech's ability to find gaps in care - Healthcare IT News**](https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/prisma-health-exec-rounding-techs-ability-find-gaps-care) | [[Healthcare IT News]] | | 9/4/2024 | [**Excitement around AI remains hot as health system leaders cite early successes, survey finds**](https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/ai-and-machine-learning/top-mind-survey-ai-reigns-tech-supreme-fourth-year-row) | [[FierceHealthcare]] | | 8/26/2024 | [**Survey: AI most exciting emerging technology in healthcare - TechTarget**](https://www.techtarget.com/healthtechanalytics/news/366608952/Survey-AI-most-exciting-emerging-technology-in-healthcare) | techtarget.com | | 7/24/2024 | [**Microsoft, Mass General developing AI models for radiology - Fierce Healthcare**](https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/ai-and-machine-learning/microsoft-collaborates-mass-general-brigham-university-wisconsin-ai-medical) | [[FierceHealthcare]] | | 7/24/2024 | [**Microsoft, Mass General Brigham & UW Health to Advance GenAI in Medical Imaging**](https://hitconsultant.net/2024/07/24/microsoft-mass-general-brigham-uw-health/) | [[HIT Consultant]] | | 7/22/2024 | [**Top 3 Trends in Nursing in 2024, So Far - HealthLeaders Media**](https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/cno/top-3-trends-nursing-2024-so-far) | [[HealthLeaders Media]] | | 7/11/2024 | [**Cantata Health Solutions Expands Board of Directors with Industry and Growth Leaders**](https://www.prweb.com/releases/cantata-health-solutions-expands-board-of-directors-with-industry-and-growth-leaders-302194439.html) | [[PRWeb]] | | 6/27/2024 | [**VSee Health Awarded Virtual Care Purchasing Agreement with Premier, Inc.**](http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240627554464/en/VSee-Health-Awarded-Virtual-Care-Purchasing-Agreement-with-Premier-Inc./?feedref=JjAwJuNHiystnCoBq_hl-RLXHJgazfQJNuOVHefdHP-D8R-QU5o2AvY8bhI9uvWSD8DYIYv4TIC1g1u0AKcacnnViVjtb72bOP4-4nHK5ieT3WxPE8m_kWI77F87CseT) | [[Business Wire]] | ## Topic Overview (Some LLM-derived content — please confirm with above primary sources) ### Key Players - **Abridge**: Provides AI-driven clinical documentation tools that reduce the time clinicians spend on documentation, thereby addressing burnout. - **Ozarks Healthcare**: Integrates AI clinical decision support to enhance clinician workflows and reduce burnout. - **VSee Health**: A telehealth company focusing on addressing clinician burnout through digital health services and AI solutions. - **eClinicalWorks**: A healthcare technology company that provides electronic health record (EHR) solutions and aims to reduce provider burnout through AI innovations. - **MedFlorida Medical Centers**: A healthcare provider that has implemented AI-powered solutions to enhance clinical efficiency and reduce provider burnout. - **WellSky**: Launched AI-powered tools to streamline medication documentation, aiming to alleviate clinician burnout. - **InfoVision**: Specializes in digital transformation and IT consulting, collaborating with Core Mobile to reduce staff burnout. - **Sunoh.ai**: An AI-powered medical scribe designed to streamline clinical documentation and improve patient interactions, significantly reducing provider burnout. - **Suki**: A healthcare technology company that has partnered with Google Cloud to enhance its documentation services with AI capabilities aimed at reducing physician burnout. - **Elation Health**: Conducted a survey indicating primary care physicians' expectations for AI tools to improve time management and job satisfaction. - **ScribeAmerica**: A company that offers ambient AI clinical documentation tools, such as Speke, to streamline documentation processes and alleviate provider burnout. - **HEALWELL**: A company that has acquired Mutuo Health Solutions to enhance its portfolio of AI-driven healthcare technologies aimed at reducing documentation burnout. - **Upheal**: A mental health platform that raised $10 million to enhance care for professionals by reducing administrative tasks and improving work-life balance. - **Core Mobile, Inc.**: A leader in Native AI healthcare technology focused on enhancing operational efficiency and reducing provider burnout through innovative solutions. - **Google Cloud**: A technology company partnering with healthcare systems to develop generative AI solutions aimed at reducing administrative burdens and clinician burnout. - **OnPoint Healthcare Partners**: A company that collaborates with Retrieve Medical to improve operational efficiency and reduce physician burnout through its IRIS platform. - **Ambience Healthcare**: Develops documentation and care-coordination tools to reduce administrative burdens on healthcare providers. - **RevelAi Health**: Specializes in AI-driven population health solutions and has partnered with Zimmer Biomet to enhance orthopedic care and reduce clinician burnout. ### Partnerships and Collaborations - **Google Cloud and Hackensack Meridian Health**: Collaborating to develop a generative AI tool that streamlines administrative tasks to alleviate clinician burnout. - **Suki and Google Cloud**: Partnered to introduce AI capabilities for healthcare documentation to alleviate physician burnout. - **Microsoft with Mass General Brigham and University of Wisconsin**: Collaborations aimed at improving AI in medical imaging to address physician burnout and staffing shortages. - **Surescripts and Cleveland Clinic**: Working together to streamline the prior authorization process, significantly reducing the time required for approvals and alleviating provider burnout. - **Core Mobile and InfoVision**: Strategic partnership to streamline healthcare workflows and reduce staff burnout. - **eClinicalWorks and North Texas Preferred Health Partners**: Collaboration to implement Sunoh.ai, resulting in a 50% reduction in documentation time and improved provider satisfaction. - **Abridge and Ambience Healthcare**: Collaborated to develop an AI-driven platform that enhances digital operations and regulatory compliance for healthcare organizations. - **Ozarks Healthcare and Avo**: Integration of AI clinical decision support into MEDITECH EHR to enhance clinician workflows. - **Retrieve Medical and OnPoint Healthcare**: Collaborating to integrate AI into clinical data capture, aiming to improve documentation efficiency. - **VSee Health and Premier, Inc.**: A group purchasing agreement to provide customizable telehealth solutions aimed at enhancing patient care and reducing costs. - **HCA Healthcare and Google Cloud**: Expanding their partnership to incorporate generative AI into workflows, with a pilot project in emergency departments. - **HEALWELL and Mutuo Health Solutions**: An acquisition to integrate AI-driven solutions that streamline clinical workflows and improve patient care. - **Microsoft and Mass General Brigham**: Working together to leverage generative AI in medical imaging to assist radiologists and improve diagnostic accuracy. - **American Oncology Network and Vantage Health Technologies**: Collaboration to provide real-time health data for better patient outcomes. - **Centific and Premier, Inc.**: A national group purchasing agreement that allows Premier members to access AI chatbots and scribes, enhancing AI adoption in healthcare. - **Retrieve Medical and OnPoint Healthcare Partners**: This partnership aims to integrate AI technology into OnPoint's IRIS platform to enhance clinical data capture and reduce patient visit times. - **RevelAi Health and Zimmer Biomet**: Entered a co-marketing agreement to promote AI solutions for value-based orthopedic care. ### Innovations, Trends, and Initiatives - **PatientPoint Digital Hub**: A digital platform designed to enhance provider efficiency and collaboration, aimed at combating burnout. - **Employee Satisfaction Surveys**: Initiatives like those from rater8 aim to measure and improve employee morale, directly addressing factors contributing to provider burnout. - **Prior Authorization Solutions**: New regulations are being introduced to streamline prior authorization processes, which are a significant source of administrative burden and provider burnout. - **Telehealth Integration**: Telehealth is being leveraged to improve clinician satisfaction and efficiency, helping to alleviate burnout through flexible scheduling and decision-support tools. - **Telemedicine**: Increased adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic has shown potential benefits for improving clinician satisfaction and reducing burnout. - **AI-Driven Solutions**: The integration of AI tools in healthcare is aimed at automating repetitive tasks, improving clinical documentation, and enhancing patient interactions, which collectively help reduce provider burnout. - **AI in Healthcare**: Health executives identify AI as a key technology for improving healthcare administration and reducing provider burnout. - **Remote Patient Monitoring**: Emerging as a solution to enhance patient experiences and alleviate the burden on healthcare staff. - **AI-Powered Medical Scribes**: Technologies like Sunoh.ai and AutoScribe are being adopted to automate documentation, saving providers significant time and reducing burnout. - **AI in Clinical Documentation**: AI tools are being implemented to streamline documentation processes, potentially reducing physician burnout and improving patient interactions. - **Generative AI Solutions**: Emerging technologies aimed at alleviating administrative burdens in healthcare, with a focus on improving efficiency and reducing clinician workload. - **Generative AI in Healthcare**: Expected to transform administrative tasks, reducing clinician burden and improving patient care. - **Telehealth Expansion**: The rise of telehealth technologies has provided flexible healthcare delivery options, helping to alleviate some of the pressures on healthcare providers. - **MDAware by Emory Healthcare**: An inbox management solution that reroutes patient messages to reduce clinician administrative workload. - **AI Medical Scribes**: Technologies like Sunoh.ai and Speke are being adopted to automate clinical documentation, allowing providers to focus more on patient care. - **Oracle Clinical Digital Assistant**: Utilizes generative AI to automate clinical documentation, saving time for healthcare professionals. - **AI Copilot by Innovaccer**: Set to launch by the end of 2024, assisting clinicians with documentation and care gap identification. - **WellSky Extract**: An AI tool that significantly reduces time for medication documentation, enhancing clinician efficiency. - **AI in Documentation**: The rapid adoption of AI tools in documentation processes is aimed at improving efficiency and reducing clinician workload, with significant time savings reported. - **ScribeAmerica's Speke**: AI solution that supports accurate translation and documentation, allowing providers to focus on patient care. ### Challenges and Concerns - **Provider Burnout**: A significant issue in healthcare, exacerbated by long hours, patient demands, and excessive administrative tasks, leading to decreased job satisfaction and quality of care. - **Provider Burnout Rates**: Physician burnout rates reached 48.2% in 2023, exacerbated by staffing shortages and administrative challenges. - **Administrative Burden**: Clinicians spend nearly 28 hours per week on administrative tasks, contributing to burnout and staffing shortages. - **Administrative Burdens**: Clinicians reportedly spend an average of 28 hours weekly on administrative tasks, contributing to burnout and negatively affecting care quality. - **Cost of AI Tools**: High costs of AI tools may exclude some health systems from benefiting from advancements that could alleviate provider burnout. - **Staffing Shortages**: Challenges in managing patient care and staff engagement due to staffing shortages and financial pressures. - **Resource Disparity**: Concerns about the divide in AI adoption between well-resourced and less equipped health systems. - **Cybersecurity Threats**: Increased data breaches in healthcare raise concerns about the security of sensitive patient information amidst the adoption of new technologies. - **Mixed Feelings About AI**: Healthcare leaders and clinicians have varied opinions on AI's role in medicine, emphasizing the need for responsible implementation. - **Cybersecurity Risks**: Increased vulnerabilities to cyberattacks and data breaches as healthcare organizations adopt AI technologies. - **Interoperability Issues**: Limited interoperability among healthcare systems complicates the implementation of AI solutions and hinders effective patient care. - **Regulatory Challenges**: Concerns regarding the classification of AI tools as medical devices, which could hinder their integration into healthcare systems. - **AI Implementation Risks**: Concerns about accuracy, bias, and the need for human oversight in AI deployment highlight the importance of careful governance and risk assessment. - **Data Management**: The need for high-quality data is crucial for effective AI implementation, as much data remains unstructured and unused. ## Related Topics [[Clinician Burnout]]; [[Physician Burnout]]; [[Staff Burnout]]