Healthcare Looks to Telehealth to Address Physician Burnout, Stress

Like any profession that deals in life and death, healthcare has a stress and burnout problem - to which telehealth could be the answer. 

Physicians have the highest suicide rate of any profession, losing 300 to 400 of their colleagues a year, and their struggles with stress and depression harm the healthcare industry’s economic health – a 2019 study posted in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that burnout adds roughly $4.6 billion in costs each year. 

At a time when the coronavirus pandemic is putting extra pressure on care providers to reduce in-person visits, hospitals and health systems are launching telehealth platforms to put doctors and nurses in front of mental health support at the time and place – and on the device – of their choice.