Strategies for Equitable and Transparent Clinician Scheduling to Improve Wellness, Reduce Burnout, and Enhance Patient Care

Ensuring equitable and transparent clinician scheduling, through strategies such as adopting a standardized system, involving clinicians in the process, considering workload and experience, rotating shifts fairly, monitoring and adjusting the schedule, and providing feedback and transparency, is essential to reduce burnout, promote fairness, and improve patient care, and these foundational principles are incorporated in the Mesh AI platform.

Physician Call Scheduling: The Importance, Challenges, and Solutions for Healthcare Organizations

Physician call scheduling is crucial for healthcare organizations to ensure there is always a physician available to respond to patient needs. While call scheduling software can automate the process, issues such as complexity, inflexibility, lack of customization, poor communication, and cost can arise. Mesh AI has been built and optimized for close to 10 years to address these issues and provide a user-friendly and cost-effective solution.

Automated clinician scheduling tool: Mesh AI can reduce workload and improve efficiency for healthcare workers

A clinician scheduler can help reduce the workload of clinicians and staff by automating scheduling tasks, improving efficiency, enhancing communication, and streamlining workflow. By implementing a clinician scheduler, healthcare facilities can free up time for staff to focus on patient care and other important tasks.

Addressing Physician Burnout in Ontario: Leveraging Technology to Support Healthcare Professionals

In Ontario, doctors do not get paid overtime but we at Mesh AI know they work long hours. According to the Ontario Medical Association (OMA), 73% of 2,649 physicians surveyed by the OMA in 2021 reported some level of burnout, up from 66% in 2020.

Mesh AI | American Academy of Pediatrics 2022: Call Scheduling Software Built For Pediatrics

Are you a medical resident or physician in charge of this year's call schedule? Do you already feel overwhelmed by all the special requests you've received?

Our Impact on Culture

“We shape our tools and then the tools shape us”, said Winston Churchill. When we face challenges at work, the answer is often not technology but good tech can be a tool to get us to where we need to go better and more efficiently.

Podcast : Mesh AI x The Catalyst with Dr. Lara Salyer

Dr. Lara Salyer, DO, IFMCP is a star physician who struggled with burnout in 2016 after fifteen years of practice in a rural family medicine setting. Inspired by a desire to help others, art, and mindfulness, she pursued additional certifications from the Institute for Functional Medicine and Flow Research Collective.

Mesh AI’s compliance with Medical Resident Accreditations

Medical resident associations such as PARO, FMRQ, PARNL, Maritime Resident Doctors, PARIM, RDoS, PARA, Resident doctors of BC and as well the ACGME in the US represent the personal and practice interests of resident doctors within their respective regions.

Automation for Good: Saving 80% of time spent on scheduling

Customer Success at Mesh AI

The Mesh AI philosophy is to promote harmony in all aspects of the lives of medical professionals - taking time away from tedious frustrating tasks and giving that time back to patients.

Prevention is better than cure

Is it too late to prevent this global pandemic to be worse than it has been? It is the summer end and we are still struggling with a virus that has infected more than 25 million people and has claimed the lives of more than 845,000 people all over the world. And there seems to be no end to this. Or is there?

Fact from fiction: how can we co-exist with Covid-19?

With no vaccine or herd immunity in sight, it looks like our best plan forward is to learn how to co-exist with the virus. So here are the best and latest to keep it at maximum “harmony” with Covid-19. Dr. Don Sheppard. He has done a fabulous job in these six minutes.

Staff scheduling and communication in crises: public health or economic recovery?

Today, still 35% of all healthcare units still schedule staff with the good old spreadsheet. And healthcare is a sector that is very human-centered. Not having the right person at the right time at the right place could mean life or death. Literally.

Webinars:Optimal staff scheduling and communication for all seasons; normal to surge

Mesh AI offers a unique solution by democratizing the staff scheduling in terms of process and technology. Join us to hear from our leaders on how Mesh AI can help healthcare during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Future of Healthcare Workforce Management with Mesh AI: An Averted Catastrophe

We have added another webinar session. These (free) webinars focus on showing how Mesh AI can be used to help healthcare professionals in pandemic situations.

Coronavirus COVID19: Demystified with Data

#Health #care workers are among the most at risk of contracting the virus, but many say they lack protective gear and protocols to keep themselves and their patients safe. Overall, the response from global #healthcare systems has been sub-optimal. In support of those in the front lines of COVID19 battle, access to Mesh AI is free for all new users during the pandemic.

Are physicians and medical staff human?

Burnout is what happens when you avoid trying to be human for too long. If there is one profession where being superhuman and beyond is expected, it is that of a physician. Doctors are not just expected to diagnose, treat and cure, but they must also achieve these expectations quickly and accurately, and then in turn, communicate this with ease to patients.

A checklist for healthy/healthcare scheduling: you can have your cake and eat it too

Our research over the past 5 years in Canada and the US has shown that the methods used to schedule medical staff are very diverse. This is our 10-step checklist to get the most out of Mesh AI.

Why are spreadsheets obsolete for physician scheduling? A case study of Queen's Department Family Medicine.

This case study shows how the Queen's University Department of Family Medicine physician team easily benefited from Mesh AI

US physicians have the highest rate of suicide among all professions. Who is going to save their lives?

Among every 100,000 physicians, 28 to 40 commit suicide, thus doubling the suicide rate from the national average.

One Powerful Way to Improve the Functioning of Medical Residency Programs

Elentra, a powerful Learning Management System (LMS) specifically designed for medical residency programs, is quickly gaining popularity all across North America. It was founded by two Queen’s Health Sciences Education Technology staff members, Matt Simpson and Andrew Dos-Santos.

Competency-Based Medical Residency Education: Automatic Schedulers to Improve Efficiency, Fairness, and Transparency and Help with Accreditation

Say goodbye to scheduling errors and improve your work-life balance with Mesh AI.

Organization Matters: The Benefits of an Automated Cloud Scheduling System for Healthcare Stakeholders

A healthcare provider’s quality of patient care is intertwined with their level of organization. The strong link between the quality of management and the quality of patient care implies that when staff members feel appreciated, job performance increases.

The Importance of an Automated Scheduler: Improving healthcare organisation structure and patient care delivery

HR managers, administrators and switchboard operators working within a healthcare environment can easily keep the balance between their staff, healthcare professionals, and organization’s needs, through the implementation of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) scheduling system