Over and over I have seen hospitals spend vast amounts of resources and time on achieving Regulatory Compliance. Often the rules seem to have been cooked up in an office by officials who are very far from the bedside. The formulas that these people are using to develop policies seem highly flawed.
Some of the charting requirements are extremely cumbersome. Inconvenient workplace modifications and barriers turn the workplace into an obstacle course. Workers have many other requirements such as online education that often is meaningless, much of it being driven by regulatory and legal forces.
These burdens make the delivery of care much more difficult, without much tangible benefit, except in what seems to be merely a theoretical way. Making systems more and more complicated each year doesn't lead to better outcomes. I'm not seeing that anything will be changing in the near future. Instead I think the burden will become too much to bear for the system at large.
