The secret recipe to achieving success is to focus on one thing at a time, but how often do we actually practice being in the moment? It’s not a matter of choice anymore, modern-day lifestyles and careers are highly demanding, and we are living under constant pressure to keep ourselves updated, constantly devouring data as consumers and creators.

Data is the new currency and US Healthcare industry is the perfect example where you have to literally produce patient data in structured formats traveling through EDI systems to be fairly compensated for rendered services. Providers choose to practice medicine as it’s the noblest and most respectable career choice allowing them to comfort people who are fighting illnesses, and diseases and going through probably the most difficult times in their lives.

Patients like to be heard and paid attention to however, most providers who are trying to finish their charts during the appointment are often too busy juggling with tabs on their computer that they have almost no time for eye contact with patients, it’s skewing the dynamics of the patient-provider relationship as patients start to think whether they even received the attention they deserved.

Now to avoid this situation providers only highlight the important bits during encounters and complete rest of the charts towards the end of the day or on Fridays and weekends. In the process, they are compromising their quality of life and getting closer to provider burnout. There is also a significant risk of missing the important bits of information from the encounter. This delay in the competition of charts reflects negatively on the claim creation process, as now billers have to work the backlog piled up over the weekend. Not to mention this add to claim turnaround time and delays the reimbursement process.

So is there a solution to the problem?