Healthcare workers are wasting hours of their day doing redundant paperwork. What needs to be done to fix this?

Physicians are spending an average of 8 hours per week on non-patient related paperwork – the majority of which could be automated and streamlined.  

“Most organizations don’t measure the amount of paperwork or time their clinical staff are spending on these tasks – they even expect clinicians to handle these tasks in their personal time. This is a ridiculous expectation when you consider the recent report that showed a physician following standard recommendations has a 27 hour workday,” explains DoorSpace CEO Sarah M. Worthy.

When healthcare workers and physicians are spending this much time on paperwork, it can lead to burnout, increased errors and resentment towards healthcare executives and administrators.

But what needs to be done to fix this critical issue?

“The truth is that healthcare leaders must measure this back office work and create a workforce strategy that accounts for this additional labor. Executives also need to look beyond paperwork at their employee data management processes. Ultimately, the reason for all this paperwork is to collect and verify information about a clinician’s competencies, experience, and other mission-critical personnel data that needs to be utilized for different departmental functions. At DoorSpace we provide a single source of truth for employee data through our cloud-based platform that makes it easy for clinicians to submit their data ONCE and have that information verified and accessible to all departments from credentialing, onboarding, training, HR, scheduling, and so forth.”

With DoorSpace, people are not wasting time manually copying and pasting data from one form or database to another and are able to focus on the high value work that ensures quality patient care, which should be the priority in the healthcare industry.

Sarah M. Worthy is the CEO and founder of DoorSpace, a company that is transforming the way healthcare organizations retain and develop talent while solving critical turnover issues in the healthcare industry. Sarah has over 15 years of experience in the B2B technology and healthcare industries.

Doorspace’s innovative technology “flips the script” on the question from “what makes people leave?” to “what makes people stay?“