How The Clinician Burnout Foundation Offers Free Services to Healthcare Workers to Beat Burnout

Jodie Green founded the Clinician Burnout Foundation to do her part to end the burnout and moral injury that is catastrophically harming physicians, providers, medical support teams  and all other members of the workforce in the US and global healthcare ecosystem.

Having worked across healthcare advocacy, marketing and health tech for 20 years – and having read the  70+ studies and surveys on physician burnout published since 2001 – Jodie made it her professional and personal mission to help save the lives of the medical professionals whose own mission is to save all our lives.

The Clinician Burnout Foundation – a 501(c)(3) public charity established in November 2020 – is the only organization in the world that literally delivers burnout-beating and moral injury-defeating solutions, not lip service. Action, not agonizing. Execution, not echo chamber.

From on-the-job health tech and tools to off-the-job services such as Uber rides for the sleep-deprived, CBF gives hands-on help for those in the US and around the world who are in need today and at risk tomorrow. From the visibly valued surgeon to the invisible, devalued custodian (without whom the operating room wouldn’t be clean to perform surgery).

Of note, all offerings must meet CBF’s criteria to crush burnout and moral distress by lifting burdens, restoring wellbeing and removing obstacles – including financial pressures, which is why all solutions are underwritten by donors, sponsors and grants.

Jodie believes that only innovative health tech, not talk, can spearhead the end of this public health crisis, owing to the leading cause of the ‘broken’ clinician being the ‘broken’ electronic health record. Designed essentially as billing tools for administrators, EHRs have doubled provider work hours, eliminated quality of care and quality of life, and drained the long-declining emotional reserves that made it possible to cope with the moral injury inflicted by the culture of medicine.

It’s no surprise that the rate of suicide among physicians was twice that of the general US population before Covid; now soaring in the US and globally. Unfathomable. Unconscionable. And completely avoidable had profit not been put before providers and patients.

The industry response has largely been to provide free wellness programs such as music therapy and yoga classes (we aren’t going to yoga our way out of this). These attempts to offer support in no way offer a solution. Band-Aids cannot stop hemorrhaging.

In addition to her dedication to the Clinician Burnout Foundation, Jodie continues her work in health tech and data innovation at Pertexa Healthcare Technologies and related. Jodie earlier worked as a digital strategist for pharma clients of the largest global marketing/advertising agencies.

After a decade in corporate America, Jodie struck out on her own as the founder and CEO of Little Dragon Digital, which provides global agency know-how with affordable consultancy nimbleness. She delivers product and service optimization, transformation and monetization by working at the nexus of technology, data science, psychology, creative and the omnichannel ecosystem. She drives behavior change, revenue and brand loyalty for startups, scaleups, Fortune 500, UN, nonprofits and companies across pharma and other health verticals as well as non-health sectors.

Jodie is also an angel investor, advisor and knowledge consultant for health and non-health innovators (AI, voice tech), leading consultancies (Boston Consulting Group, Accenture) and venture capital firms.

Jodie counts among her career highlights (so far!), being retained as a consultant to shape an international campaign for the UNFPA to provide psychosocial support for women, men and teens who have suffered sexual violence and more at the hands of terrorist organization such as ISIS and Boko Haram. Earlier, Jodie was one of only 30 online digital strategists invited to the Obama White House Women’s Online Health Summit.

A lifelong learner and admitted adrenaline junkie, Jodie is constantly challenging herself. She is a fencer, one-time skydiver and a pilot-in-progress. She is also a member of the Amateur Astronomers Association of NY.

On a deeply personal note, Jodie is a caregiver for her brother, who is autistic. She works to help others who have children or siblings along the autism spectrum – particularly autistic adults, like her brother, for whom there is far less awareness and support.

Since the age of 17, Jodie has experienced the decline of our healthcare system as a caregiver to her brother and, until her passing in 2022, her beloved mother (who struggled with her mental and physical health). This was the genesis of her lifelong journey in healthcare, which forged her commitment to help those who have been no less than healthcare heroes for her loved ones and herself.

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