Brigham and Women’s Launches Pilot to Monitor Clinician Mental Health
Countless articles have been written speculating on the effects of the pandemic on our mental health. Whether it relates to a new way of working, social isolation, or even political division, how we’re holding up has been a major topic of conversation. Many of the anxieties people are running into can be alleviated with simple actions like Zoom calls or unplugging from social media. For a subset of the population, though, the stress can be much more pervasive.
Healthcare workers as a whole are probably bearing the brunt of more stress than any other group that’s still lucky enough to be employed. Many clinicians are facing patient-loads never before seen in their careers, constant new coverage regarding hospital finances, and simpler but additive things like being the person that family and friends rely on for information about the virus.
To keep a close eye on this, Brigham and Women’s Hospital has rolled out a pilot program to check the mental health of their clinicians. Rather than act as a record of the wellbeing of employees, this app from a startup named Rose is designed to monitor wellbeing, detect real-time changes, and get ahead of any potential extreme events. The program uses a HIPAA compliant app that gathers information from users and analyzes it to find early warning signs for depression, anxiety, or trauma.
The technology is powered by artificial intelligence and natural language processing, using them to identify insights that might not be readily seen otherwise. The platform can then recommend articles and videos specifically tailored to the user’s needs. The platform will certainly help clinicians on an individual basis but may also be able to identify larger, hospital-wide trends that are leading to stress and burnout.
Natural language processing and artificial intelligence are two technologies that we value highly here at Extract. For us, rather than applying them to uncovering mental health insights, we use them to uncover document types and discrete data within the unstructured documents a health system receives. Whether it’s COVID test results or the normal flood of paper and whether your staff is at home or in the health system, Extract’s HealthyData Platform will reduce your data entry so staff can devote their energy to the most important tasks in your healthcare organization.
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