Meeting the moment with today’s rapidly evolving medical knowledge
In today’s health care environment, medical knowledge is evolving faster than ever. For example, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) updated its 88 guidelines 241 times last year.
While these advancements bring new hope for patients, they can also place greater demands on health care providers’ time and focus. Clinicians are expected to stay up to date with an overwhelming volume of research, treatment protocols, and payer requirements, all while providing compassionate, effective care to a growing number of patients.
These heightened demands are taking a toll. Two-thirds of providers say they feel overwhelmed by the amount of information they need to keep up with. Nearly half of physicians report at least one indicator of burnout. Many point to administrative hassles as the chief contributor to stress. In fact, physicians report spending almost eight hours per week on administrative tasks.
The result isn’t just emotional exhaustion. It can cause providers to feel less empathetic, as well as diminish their sense of personal and professional fulfillment, creating a cycle that threatens the quality and sustainability of care delivery.
In this landscape, having access to clinical support and streamlined processes isn’t just helpful — it’s essential.
Providers need innovative medical technology solutions
What providers need now is clear: seamless, clinically integrated systems that reduce administrative burden and help improve the quality of patient care. That means being able to initiate patient treatment plans without difficulty, supported by connected systems that enable timely, accurate, and simplified information sharing.
Tools that remove friction from these workflows don’t just save time; they also help restore provider well-being, strengthen patient-provider relationships, and create more space for thoughtful, person-centered care.
Medical necessity review is an area particularly ripe for this type of streamlining and automation. Health care providers and their teams have often found traditional medical necessity reviews to be disjointed, labor-intensive, and overly reliant on manual processes. This administrative complexity can lead to care delays or interruptions, potentially increasing stress for patients.
EviCore’s intelliPath®’s solution transforms the medical necessity review process. By bringing together automation and connectivity, it eases the administrative burden for providers, gets patients to the evidence-based care they need, and lowers the total cost of care for payers. The result is accelerated approvals and faster care for patients, reducing authorization decision approval times by up to 50%.
Responsible use of AI in medical to help improve the provider and patient experience
Physicians have indicated more willingness to use artificial intelligence (AI) for administrative support than for clinical decisions like diagnosis or treatment, signaling an openness to adopting new tools that ease the burdens of care delivery.
EviCore intelliPath’s® AI technology helps dramatically reduce the amount of time spent creating and approving cases. It automates the collection, organization, and submission of relevant documentation. It also connects electronic medical records (EMRs) and clinical review systems to allow for the seamless, bi-directional flow of information.
Importantly, EviCore intelliPath’s® AI technology is only used to facilitate faster approvals of cases. For any other decision, there’s a highly skilled human being involved. According to Evernorth’s Health Care in Focus report, 9 in 10 consumers agree that in-person interaction with providers is vital, further emphasizing the importance of combining AI with compassionate care practices.
Watch now to learn more about this innovative technology.
