Search Tag: burnout
Competency: Is It the Wonder ‘Drug’?
2021 15 Feb
In the world of modern healthcare, especially since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the understanding of interaction between healthcare professionals’ burnout, morale and competence level is key to improving the quality of care and decrease staff turnover. A team of experts investigate this complex area and question some current practices of... Read more
Burnout in U.S. Nurses: Risks and Consequences
2021 14 Feb
A new study looks into the issue of nurse burnout in the U.S. and associated factors, urging healthcare provider organisations to improve their management effort in this area. You might also like: Resilience: The Airbag for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professions Burnout is recognised as one of the major problems... Read more
Burned Out Radiologists Feel 'Unheard'
2020 11 Feb
Work overload, a lack of autonomy and disputes with administrators are among the many factors contributing to "high burnout" in academic radiologists in the United States. You might also like: Radiologist Burnout Researchers conducted a study on this important health issue that impacts on the delivery of care. An online... Read more
Nurses: Dealing With Suicide and Burnout
2020 04 Feb
Nurses in the U.S., both male and female, are at higher risk of suicide than the general population, shows one recent study, while another, conducted in the UK, explores the relationship between compassion fatigue and nurse turnover. You may also like: Resilience: The Airbag for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professions Suicide... Read more
A Mobile Solution Easing Imaging Workflow and Burnout
2020 29 Jan
Summary: Streamlining radiology workflow is critical for reducing burnout and making imaging departments as efficient as possible. A developer of an innovative app focusing on easing daily radiology tasks spoke to HealthManagement.org about the thinking behind the creation and the effect it’s having on an imaging department. At present, the... Read more
To Have a Healthy Work Environment, Mind the Gap
2020 13 Jan
Staffing. Burnout. Retention. Quality. You don’t often speak to direct care nurses or nurse managers about their units without these common themes emerging. They’re all elements associated with the health of the nursing work environment — a topic that the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) has been studying for over a decade. ... Read more
AI Breast Cancer Diagnosis Matches Two Doctors
2020 02 Jan
A newly-published study in the journal Nature suggests that AI diagnoses breast cancer from mammograms more accurately than radiologists. A computer, specially designed and trained by a team of researchers from international bodies such as Google Health and Imperial College London, performed as well as two doctors working together.... Read more
Our Top 10 Imaging Stories from 2019
2019 27 Dec
As the year draws to a close, we take a look at our ten most viewed Imaging stories across our 2019 news and journals. Multisociety AI Radiology Ethics Framework Announced With AI moving into radiology at lightning speed, international imaging and informatics societies have worked together to produce a paper on ethics guidance.... Read more
Duplicate Imaging Orders Cut By 40% With EHR Visual Nudge
2019 18 Dec
One advantage of using electronic health records (EHR) is that teams of clinicians can simultaneously care for patients. But this may lead to clinicians making unintentional duplicate orders for tests and medications. Inclusion of passive visual cues in the EHR that provide "just-in-time" decision support can be a solution to this duplication... Read more
Improvements Reduce EHR Burnout
2019 17 Dec
Healthcare has started moving into the post-electronic health record, with its sights set on a future of advanced analytics, telemedicine, population health, and artificial intelligence. You might also like: Why is New Zealand a Leading Light in EHR Machine Learning Amidst this change, however, EHRs remain a source of daily annoyance for... Read more