Is the Stress of Medical Charts and Patient Visits Taking a Toll?
We all know that being a physician is an incredibly demanding job. The long hours, life or death decisions, and mountains of paperwork can take a major toll. But just how stressful is it managing patient visits and medical charts day after day?
A new study reveals some alarming findings. Researchers surveyed over 500 doctors across the country to gauge stress levels related to patient care and medical records. The results were eye-opening. Over 80% reported feeling highly anxious when faced with a waiting room full of patients. 70% felt drained after only 2-3 hours of seeing patients and updating charts. And a shocking 90% said medical charting has a bigger impact on stress than caring for patients themselves. This data highlights a major crisis in physician burnout. And stressed, overworked doctors cannot provide the best quality care.
So what can be done?! What if there was a way to reduce the burden of charting and improve physician satisfaction and decrease burnout, all while boosting revenue? Enter MedSer with its medical scribes.
MedSer trains its employees to become medical scribes and assigns a dedicated medical scribe to work with a physician. This is done using MedSer’s proprietary HIPAA compliant tools. The scribe document visits in real and non-real time, depending on preference – freeing up physicians to simply practice medicine. The benefits are immense: doctors can devote their precious time to patient care and have a decrease in burnout while also freeing up time to see more patients, if they choose to do so. Clinics can also see a boost in revenue and greater retention.
As MedSer provides the scribes to optimize documentation, burnout decreases, care improves, and revenue increases – It’s caregiving and business in harmony.
