Clinicians
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Tandon: Healthcare's core bottleneck is administrative overhead, not clinical tools
“The clinicians had the tools they needed for the average patient to get the job done. The real problem was administrative. It was in how they ran their telehealth operations and how did, and how they did their billing and how they, you know, fought insurance c…”
Marquez: Clinicians were historically dismissive of patient-reported health metrics
“At least since when I was more involved with health tech, you know, generally speaking, clinicians were dismissive of patient reported metrics.”
Blackington: Dovetail uses AI to translate caregiver observations into clinical language
“With these AI outputs where you're taking observation from somebody who may not have any healthcare experience and what they see, balance, appetite all, all of those things. And then you're turning it into the language that a clinician sees because they have t…”
Doctors are compensated for documented care, not care delivered
“So when you think about it in, in the United States, but really this is like true in many parts of the world, clinicians, doctors, they're not compensated for the care that they deliver. They're compensated for the care that they documented, that they deliver.”
Lee: Clinicians spend 10 to 20 hours weekly on documentation
“They're spending 10 to 20 hours a week on documentation.”
Lee: Clinicians and patients do not want a spoken AI voice in exam rooms
“Right now patients, clinicians don't want a third voice, at least in a literal voice in that room”
Ramsaran: Clinicians spend 80% of their day updating medical records
“What's occurred is you've got clinicians being away from the bedside, and there's now inside of the terminal, we'll call it, but the medical records, 80% of the day taking notes and updating information, reducing what's going on at the bedside care standpoint.”
Rao: Replacing a Clinician Costs Health Systems Close to $1 Million
“The cost is sort of like hire another clinician is like close to a million dollars and it takes a long time.”
Yoo: Up to 50% of a clinician's job is administrative work
“It could be upward of 50%. Like, half of their job is mired in these, you know, clerical tasks that, again, take their time away from actual care delivery.”
Yoo: Soft factors will drive near-term clinician AI adoption over money
“I personally think that that it's probably gonna be more the, these soft things in the near term. That drive adoption, at least for clinicians and then, you know, perhaps if you're able to layer on a financial element to it could just be icing on the cake.”
Robbins: Medical breakthroughs take an average of 27 years to reach clinicians
“And then I sent out the studies that show the amount of time it takes for a breakthrough to happen to get your clinician on average is 27 years.”
Bapu: Healthcare AI risks triggering another wave of clinician AI burnout
“It also runs the risk of that same burnout occurring again.”
Lebrun: WHO projects global shortage of 18M clinicians by 2030
“The World Health Organization says that we are missing eighteen million clinicians by 2030.”
Otte: Insurance payers and clinicians are blocking diagnostic innovation
“It's really the payers and some of the clinicians that are being the inhibitors to this progress.”
Gawande: Only 25% of seriously ill patients discuss quality-of-life goals
“We're at 25% Of people who have a serious life-limiting illness in the last year and have been hospitalized, only 25% have had that conversation about their goals and priorities for their quality of life with their clinician.”
Gawande: Clinicians Must Act as Counselors Matching Care to Patient Goals
“The role of the clinician is not just to tell you the facts of what your situation is. Here's your disease. Here are the options, A, B, and C. Here are the pros, the cons, the risks, the benefits. But the role of a clinician is also be a counselor, and that me…”