Repetitive, arduous tasks are a major contributor to burnout – an increasingly prevalent issue in healthcare. While digital innovation is transformative, introducing more technology to workflows often creates additional layers of complexity, hindering efficiency, performance monitoring, and ultimately the quality of care.
As a result, once-simple traditional workflows have grown cumbersome over time, filled with many interconnected tasks that are difficult to manage.
- As these processes become more complex, it’s clear that healthcare needs to reduce, subtract, and simplify to maintain high standards of care.
Every traditional (or macro) workflow consists of multiple smaller tasks or steps (micro-workflows), many of which are still performed manually.
- Consider a wound care scenario where a practitioner takes images, searches for the patient’s record in the EHR, uploads the images, and manually enters encounter details.
While each individual task may seem small, when multiplied by dozens of similar interactions each day, these repetitive steps …
- Decrease the time providers have for meaningful patient interactions.
- Lower overall productivity.
- Increase the potential for human error.
- Contribute to burnout and fatigue.
Micro-workflows address this by breaking down processes into discrete, manageable steps. For example, by …
- Identifying the patient within the EHR.
- Capturing the image.
- Automatically inputting relevant metadata.
- Seamlessly sharing the image with the care team.
This granular approach enables automation, allowing individual components to be optimized or modified without disrupting the entire process.
- Micro-workflows offer adaptability, efficiency, and responsiveness, meeting evolving clinical requirements while reducing complexity.
Moreover, micro-workflows make it possible to monitor individual tasks with precision.
- This approach allows healthcare organizations to pinpoint workflow gaps, troubleshoot issues, and resolve performance bottlenecks.
- In multi-vendor environments, where integrating various systems and applications can be a challenge, the ability to streamline processes and automate tasks becomes especially valuable.
Strings by Paragon is a platform specifically designed to help healthcare organizations harness the power of micro-workflows.
- By breaking traditional workflows into smaller, more manageable steps, Strings enables automation, real-time performance tracking, and monitoring across a wide range of applications and infrastructure.
The platform’s single-pane-of-glass interface provides visibility into complex, multi-vendor environments.
- Strings offers actionable insights and automated optimizations tailored to specific clinical workflows.
With Strings, organizations can proactively identify workflow bottlenecks, implement targeted optimizations, and measure performance and ROI with precision – leading to improved efficiency, enhanced imaging quality, better patient outcomes, and a value-driven approach to care.
Learn more about Strings by visiting Paragon Health IT’s website, or visit them at RSNA 2024 at booth #1849.
