AMA Announces Resources Designed to Reduce Burnout, Improve Practice Sustainability

The American Medical Association (AMA) recently shared new resources that have been designed to reduce burnout and improve practice sustainability. The AMA STEPS Forward™ Saving Time Playbook offers strategies and tips that can significantly improve practice efficiencies. And, an AMA report highlights findings from qualitative research and provides insights into the nature of high-performing private practices.

AMA STEPS Forward™ Saving Time Playbook Offers Strategies to Improve Practice Efficiencies
Physician burnout is an epidemic in the U.S. healthcare system, and time spent on non-patient-facing tasks in a clinician’s workday is contributing heavily to the problem. Timesaving efforts need to come from organizational leaders who can affect large-scale change. Containing highlights from nine AMA STEPS Forward™ toolkits, the Saving Time Playbook offers strategies and tips that can significantly improve efficiencies in your practice: https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/ama-steps-forward-saving-time-playbook.pdf

Report: Supporting and Promoting High-Performing Physician-Owned Private Practices
The AMA has partnered with Mathematica, a global research and policy organization, to analyze and assess the factors that create and sustain high-performing, physician-owned private practices. The report highlights the findings from this qualitative research and provides insights into the nature of high-performing private practices, advantages and challenges to the practice model, and the changes that physicians in private practice foresee. The report concludes that physician-owned practices will continue to be an integral part of the health care ecosystem, but the success of the model will require the commitment and efforts of policymakers, educators, professional organizations, and other groups to remove obstacles and create equitable opportunities for success: https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/mathematica-ama-white-paper.pdf