Clinician App Tackles Stress of Patient Task Management

Coordination of patient care is a complex process that requires the collaboration of a diverse team as well as management of critical, often disparate, tasks. Managing these processes puts clinicians and their teams under a lot of stress, often leading to feelings of fatigue and burnout. Designed to assist with the administrative burden of patient care and practice management, Dock Health is a secure collaboration and task management platform. Dock Health was the result of a collaboration between Michael Docktor, MD, a pediatric gastroenterologist and clinical director of innovation at Boston Children's Hospital (BCH), and Keather Roemhildt, a veteran user experience (UX) designer now at Twitter. Ahmed Morsy, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Pulse, spoke with Michael Docktor (Figure 1) about the potential this platform has to assist with patient management tasks and ease the stress of clinician and administrative burnout.