SLIDE 1 Clinician Burnout in the EHR era
Christopher A. Longhurst, MD, MS CIO and Associate CMO, UC San Diego Health Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics @calonghurst Mike South, MBBS, PhD CMIO and Paediatrician, Royal Children’s Hospital Professor of Paediatrics, Melbourne University @mikesouthRCH
SLIDE 2 Population Health Patient Experience High Value Care Caregiver Experience
The Triple Aim: Care, Health, and Costs, Health Affairs, 2008 From Triple to Quadruple Aim, Family Medicine, 2014
SLIDE 3 UCSF UC Davis UCLA UC Irvine UC San Diego
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UC San Diego – UC Irvine collaboration
SLIDE 5 Clinician Burnout
“A psychological syndrome in response to chronic stressors on the job -
feelings of cynicism and detachment from the job; a sense of ineffectiveness; lack of accomplishment or fulfillment.”
SLIDE 6 Abraham Verghese, New York Times Magazine, May 16, 2018
SLIDE 7 UC San Diego EMR Satisfaction
UC San Diego Health medical staff surveyed in September 2017 @KLASresearch #ArchCollaborative
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Off the Record?
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What about outside the US?
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What about outside the US?
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Annals of Internal Medicine, June 2019
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Progress note length in US and international health systems using the same EHR
SLIDE 13 San Diego
VA San Diego Healthcare System Rady Children’s Hospital
Imperial Valley
El Centro Regional Medical Center
Southwest Riverside
Inland Valley Medical Center Rancho Springs Medical Center Temecula Valley Hospital
North County
Tri-City Healthcare District
Coachella Valley
Eisenhower Medical Center UC San Diego Health Campus UC San Diego Health Clinic(s) Affiliate Hospital Affiliate Medical Group Clinic
UC San Diego Physician Network
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Family Medicine – UC San Diego Health Family Medicine – Community Affiliates
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Neurology – UC San Diego Health Neurology – Community Affiliates
SLIDE 16 UC San Diego Health led by informatics team
- Use data analytics to target areas of impact (“hot spotting”)
- “Home for Dinner” program
- Physician Informatics service owners!
- Voice recognition tools
UC San Diego Health led by ambulatory operations
- Practice transformation! Workflow redesign, supported by IS team, to ensure all roles
functioning at the top of their license
What are we doing locally?
SLIDE 17 Where we have IS medical directors, we tend to have high provider ratings on EMR experience UC San Diego Health KLAS EMR Experience Survey – September 2017 @KLASresearch #ArchCollaborative
SLIDE 18 Key opportunity identified from survey: Half of UCSD medical staff rated themselves as low efficiency for outpatient charting @KLASresearch #ArchCollaborative
SLIDE 19 UCSD Home for Dinner program
“I need my entire group to do this, it was amazingly helpful. I have used EPIC for a long time and I am terribly set in my ways but set up ways to help with less jumping around.” *100% would recommend to a colleague
Reduced by up to 75% for half
1 2 3 4 5 Comfort with workflows Ability to use knowledge
Before and after surveys
Before After
User feedback physician surveys After hours time report for physicians
2018 goals:
- Program is aligned with Primary Care Flow
Collaborative
- Goal is to CLOSE VISITS before seeing next
patient
- Creating webinars for common issues and
videos for training
SLIDE 20 Feedback from the Dean for Clinical Affairs
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- Center for Medicare Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma announced “patients over
paperwork” initiative “At CMS, our top priority is putting patients first. CMS Administrator Seema Verma launched the “Patients over Paperwork” initiative, which is in accord with President Trump’s Executive Order that directs federal agencies to “cut the red tape” to reduce burdensome regulations. Through “Patients over Paperwork,”
- CMS established an internal process to evaluate and streamline regulations with a goal to
reduce unnecessary burden, to increase efficiencies, and to improve the beneficiary
- experience. In carrying out this internal process, CMS is moving the needle and removing
regulatory obstacles that get in the way of providers spending time with patients.”
What is happening nationally?
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Breaking news…
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Is clinician burnout a big topic in Australia? Is the use of EMRs commonly cited as a contributing factor in Australia?
Not Yet!
SLIDE 26 New Hospital - 2011
Hospital units still on paper: None Departmental CISs: Retired
Big bang implementation April 30th 2016 Entire hospital
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Documentation - clinics
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So what is going on here?
Same EMR system
SLIDE 33 So what is going on here?
USA RCH Problem: Abdominal pain The problem has been getting worse. The pain is in the Right Lower
- Quadrant. The pain is currently at a
severity level of 8/10. The quality of the pain is sharp. Associated symptoms currently include fever
SLIDE 34 So what is going on here?
USA RCH Problem: Abdominal pain The problem has been getting worse. The pain is in the Right Lower
- Quadrant. The pain is currently at a
severity level of 8/10. The quality of the pain is sharp. Associated symptoms currently include fever Abdo pain
- Sharp
- getting worse
- Now 8/10
- Febrile
We actively encourage this style Note-writing tools reconfigured
SLIDE 35 So what is going on here?
“Time-saving” tools
Transcription into notes Scribes Voice recognition Copy Forward
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So what is going on here?
“Time-saving” tools – Pre-Charting
SLIDE 37 So what is going on here?
USA - Documentation driven by something other than clinical care?
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Compliance Revenue Anticipating litigation Perfunctory
Documentation
So what is going on here?
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Compliance Revenue Anticipating litigation Perfunctory Documentation
So what is going on here?
SLIDE 40 What is the documentation in a note for?
Australia Clinical care
At RCH – no staff other than clinicians look at the outpatient
- notes. Patients and families can
view. There are no drivers for clinicians to document anything other than what is needed for good clinical care
USA The documentation seems to serve many non-clinical purposes. Clinical care often seems to be a secondary purpose
Many non-clinicians are reviewing the notes There are strong drivers for clinicians to document +++
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Ordering Inbasket Messages
It’s not just documentation
SLIDE 42 We also do much less
- Ordering
- Co-signing orders
- Attesting trainees notes
- Marking things as “reviewed”
- Alerting – drug and other warnings
It’s not just documentation
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So – what is to be done?
SLIDE 45 So – what is to be done?
Australia Protect the clinical purpose
EMR Hands off our medical record!!! USA ? Back to the drawing board
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SLIDE 47 Population Health Patient Experience High Value Care Caregiver Experience
The Triple Aim: Care, Health, and Costs, Health Affairs, 2008 From Triple to Quadruple Aim, Family Medicine, 2014
SLIDE 48 Thank you…and a favor
Mike.South@rch.org.au @mikesouthRCH clonghurst@ucsd.edu @calonghurst
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Help us win!