Predictive Workflow Platform Reduces Clinician Time in the EHR which can Contribute to Doctor Burnout
Newark, NJ - February 26, 2020 - Wellsheet Inc., the company transforming the EHR experience, announced today that healthcare industry veterans Dr. Christine Cassel and Dr. John Glaser have joined their Advisory Board.
Christine Cassel, MD is senior advisor on strategy and policy for the Department of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. Previously she was Planning Dean of the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine and served on the Board of the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals. She has been a leader in geriatric medicine, biomedical ethics and quality of care. Dr. Cassel was President & CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the National Quality Forum, and a longstanding member of the National Academy of Medicine. She served under two U.S. Presidents as a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and the President’s Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Healthcare Industry.
John Glaser, PhD led major healthcare transformations aimed at improving the quality of patient care as CIO of Partners Healthcare and CIO of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and was CEO of Siemens Health Services and Executive Senior Advisor at Cerner. He serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of InTouch Health, the Scottsdale Institute, the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), NCQA and eHealth Initiative. Dr. Glaser is a former senior advisor to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the former Chair of the Global Agenda Council on Digital Health, World Economic Forum. Dr. Glaser is a lecturer in the Healthcare Management Department at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and is on the faculty at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
“Wellsheet is integrated directly into the EHR and delivers a thoughtful redesign of workflows designed with doctors in mind to ensure that each clinician is able to quickly and easily extract customized, actionable patient data, receive immediate alerts, and make quality-based treatment decisions” said Dr. John Glaser, Wellsheet Advisory Board Member. “The response from clinicians to Wellsheet is game-changing as the need to reduce the EHR burden on physicians has become a top priority for healthcare providers.”
“Physician burnout is a national epidemic, according to a recent report of the National Academy of Medicine which concluded that up to one half of doctors and nurses experience symptoms of burnout. 1,2 Other research3 of almost 9,000 physicians found that ‘poor EHR user design and inadequate EHR interoperability’ now surpass arguing with insurance companies as the top frustration identified by physicians,” said Dr. Christine Cassel, Wellsheet Advisory Board Member. “Wellsheet reduces time in the EHR, and it’s exciting to see the results healthcare providers are experiencing today and to await the long term impact it will have on overall clinician well-being and patient care.” View a video of Dr. Cassel addressing Physician Burnout here.
“While healthcare providers have long focused on reducing costs, increasing quality, and improving the patient experience, they are now facing an epidemic of ‘physician burnout,’ impacting the quality of patient care, and realize they must include clinician well-being among their top initiatives,” said Craig Limoli, CEO and founder of Wellsheet. “We are honored to have true industry experts like Dr. John Glaser and Dr. Christine Cassel share their tremendous knowledge and experience with our team as we deploy Wellsheet across healthcare providers.
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About Wellsheet
Wellsheet’s predictive clinical workflow platform uses the FHIR API standards to work within an existing EHR to surface the most relevant content for physicians in a view that is contextualized and prioritized for their needs. Its AI-powered, cloud-based intuitive workflow is integrated with both Epic and Cerner to reduce a physician’s time in the EHR, lessening physician burnout and improving the quality of patient care. Wellsheet’s SaaS-based offering is deployed in large healthcare providers. Learn more at www.Wellsheet.com or follow us on Twitter @Wellsheet_Inc
References:
1. Massachusetts Medical Society. “A Crisis in Health Care: A Call to Action on Physician Burnout.” March 28, 2019. http://www.massmed.org/burnoutpaper/#.Xh3atvxMFEY.
2. The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. “Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being.” October 2019. https://nam.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CR-report-key-messages-final.pdf.
3 .An Examination of the Professional Morale, Practice Patterns, Career Plans, and Perspectives of Today’s Physicians, Aggregated by Age, Gender, Primary Care/Specialists and Practice Owners/Employees. The Physicians Foundation Survey, 2018, on behalf of Merrit-Hawkins. https://physiciansfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/physicians-survey-results-final-2018.pdf
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