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Involve MSPs in medical staff orientation

The Medical Staff Office Manual: Tools and Techniques for Success is an on-the-job desk reference for new and experienced MSPs. This book is a comprehensive guide that maps every aspect of the medical staff office, from credentialing and privileging physicians to querying other facilities for practitioner information and effectively collaborating with physician leadership. One of the elements MSPs and physician leadership should collaborate on is orientation for new medical staff members. Read more.

Electronic tools fan the flames of physician burnout

Add electronic health records systems to the list of factors that contribute to physician burnout. Physicians who use EHRs and CPOEs are not just less satisfied with their clerical burdens, but also at higher risk for professional burnout, according to a national study of physicians led by Mayo Clinic.

So far, EHRs and computerized physician order entry systems aren't making good on their promise to make physicians' lives easier.

“Although electronic health records, electronic prescribing, and computerized physician order entry have been touted as ways to improve quality of care, these tools also create clerical burden, cognitive burden, frequent interruptions and distraction—all of which can contribute to physician burnout,” Tait Shanafelt, MD, Mayo Clinic physician and lead author of the study, said in a news release. Read more.

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