Paul DeChant MD, MBA
The Quadruple Threat: RVUs, administrivia, employment agreements, and burnout
We can achieve the Quadruple Aim by taking investing in tech and redesign that will "flip the ratio" of meaningful work to administivia.
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Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Mar 27
Management in the Information Age: Overcoming Workforce Challenges
Overcoming modern workforce challenges requires leadership approaches moving from prior Industrial Age to Information Age management.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Mar 11
To Beat Clinician Burnout, Empower Your Team to Fix Their Workplace
Learn how to beat burnout by leading your healthcare practice with empowerment and alignment...
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Mar 6
Do Patients or Care Givers Come First? It Depends…
“Who comes first?” For care givers, it’s their patients. For administrators, it’s their front-line care givers.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Jan 18
Why do Healthcare Systems Tolerate Toxic Workplaces?
A look at why there is so little action by healthcare leaders to address toxic workplaces...
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Dec 11, 2023
Absence of Fairness – An Overlooked Driver of Healthcare Burnout
Absence of fairness is an overlooked yet significant driver of burnout. It takes place at both a micro and macro level.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Dec 5, 2023
Breakdown of Community in the Healthcare Setting
Breakdown of Community is driving healthcare burnout in ways you may not expect.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Nov 28, 2023
Eliminate Physician Frustrations to Prevent Physician Burnout
Do you experience clinical workflow barriers and frustrations? They can be the first steps to burnout.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Nov 14, 2023
Breakdown of Community: A Driver of Physician Burnout
Let's discuss breakdown of community, an important driver of physician burnout, and why it's increasingly common in health care today.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Nov 1, 2023
Why Do We Call it “Admin Time”?
Let’s call "Admin Time" what it really is, "Clerical Time" doctors spend doing work someone else should be doing.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Sep 13, 2023
Improve Practice Efficiency to Reduce Healthcare Burnout
Here's how healthcare executives can reduce clinician burnout by innovating the work environment/work flow and improving practice efficiency
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Aug 14, 2023
Shadowing Physicians: Going Where the Work Is Done
Healthcare leaders need to go where the actual work is being done in order to make better informed decisions. Here's why...
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Jul 10, 2023
Funding Clinician Wellbeing Work
Here are three approaches for funding clinician wellbeing work to improve the workplace and reduce healthcare-related burnout.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Jun 12, 2023
Getting Aligned in the Healthcare Setting - Up, Down, and Sideways
Are you aligned with your healthcare team and organization? Here's why it's so important to the culture of your leadership team...
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
May 16, 2023
3 Ways To Improve Healthcare Practice Efficiency To Reduce Clinician Burnout
Dr. Paul DeChant describes three ways to improve practice efficiency: daily huddles, workflow redesign, and optimizing technology.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
May 10, 2023
Efficiency of Practice
Efficiency of Practice in healthcare is the area that can make the biggest difference in physician's lives, by reducing work overload.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Apr 24, 2023
The Role of Personal Resilience in Beating Burnout
Personal resilience support is absolutely vital and insufficient to reduce healthcare burnout. Learn about effective ways to get started.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Mar 27, 2023
Understanding Burnout
Dr. Paul DeChant explains how healthcare and clinician burnout is the manifestation, in an individual, of dysfunction in the workplace.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Mar 21, 2023
Burnout and You
Dr. Paul DeChant explains how you can be part of the solution to solving clinician and physician burnout in the healthcare workplace.
Paul DeChant MD, MBA
Mar 16, 2023
How to Beat Burnout While Building the Bottom Line
Dr. Paul DeChant, burnout expert, shows how to beat burnout through fixing workplace dysfunction, not simply building personal resilience
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