In December of 2021, the Mayo Clinic published an alarming report: ⅓ of physicians surveyed intended to reduce their work hours – that represents 336,000 doctors. While—and I hope you are sitting down—1 in 5 physicians intended to leave their practice altogether – 20%, or 204,000.
The cause? Burnout.
Burnout from workload, COVID-19–related anxiety/depression, and fear of contracting the disease. Now, some of those burdens have certainly eased over the past 10 months – but the prevailing concern of burnout from overwork has hardly abated.
Burnout is a widespread problem in any industry, but the stakes are even higher in healthcare with lives of patients on the line. Quality and safety of care is our top priority and errors or lack of awareness can lead to terrible consequences.
With burnout on the rise and VBC/HCC knowledge requirements continuing to grow, it can feel like there is an impossible riptide in front of today’s clinicians. And with healthcare relentlessly marching in the direction of Value-Based Care, it’s no wonder why new clinicians have a difficult time onboarding. Requiring providers to add HCC coding to their already complex workflow is not only vital to improve the industry, it is increasingly mandated by CMS.
The DoctusTech HCC Coding App is designed with a sole purpose in mind: to reduce clinician workload, and make it easier for them to diagnose, and ultimately, take care of their patients.
The Socratic method, clinical vignettes, and question and answer sessions are the most effective methods for capturing long-term knowledge. This is how doctors were taught in the first place, and this is the best way to do it. With DoctusTech, they can learn HCC coding in the same manner—from other doctors using clinical vignettes—on their own time, requiring only an average of five minutes per week.
The DoctusTech Mobile App is based on our successful HCC education and retention strategy, which relies on clinical vignettes customized to the clinicians’ weaknesses and strengths, which are sent to their mobile phones every week. With an engagement rate of 90%, DoctusTech App results far exceed any other learning tool, technology, or strategy.
After using the app for HCC coding education, clinician RAF accuracy is consistently increased based on the learning data.
What methods does the app use to accomplish this?
Our app gamifies the learning experience, connects clinicians with one another, allows them to compete for real prizes, and provides administrative support. In addition, the most advanced HCC code search tool in the world is available. Clinicians earn 25 CME hours every year as they learn HCC coding in a non-boring app!
If HCC Coding and Physician Burnout are at all on your radar, we’d love to share a solution to both. Better solutions are out there – and they outperform seminars and code-of-the-month email blasts for engagement and results. And they free up your coaches to focus on the 20% that need it the most.
To learn more, book a conversation with our team!