Soundcloud Meets Rap Genius This week I am talking to Shiv Rao, MD (@ShivdevRao) is the co-founder and CEO of Abridge (@ABridgeHQ), which uses groundbreaking machine learning to help people understand the details of their care and follow through on their doctors’ advice. He is also a faculty member and practicing cardiologist at UPMC’s Heart and Vascular Institute. Shiv […]
After all the hype and knee jerk politics and media I was delighted to read this piece Ebola US Patient Zero: lessons on misdiagnosis and effective use of electronic health records by Upadhyay, Sittig and Singh (PDF file here) A thoughtful piece that drilled in to the detail of events surrounding the arrival and subsequent […]
Many years ago I remember an excited friend who worked for one of the vendors of electronic medical records (really this was more of a billing and patient tracking and management system than and Electronic Health record) desperate to show me some of their new applications – in particular a module they had developed to […]
We know doctors are under an ever increasing load may eventually break their backs..if nothing else its increasing the overall pain In a recent study of physician attitudes toward clinical documentation technology and processes clinicians the majority of clinicians said they would be more responsive to Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) clarifications if they were delivered […]
You can always rely on Hollywood to take concepts and extend them into the future – sometimes correctly (cloaking, holographic TV, forcefields and eco skeletons with mind control), sometimes incorrectly (aluminum dresses, atmosphere that is completely controlled, suspension bridge apartment housing). We have had speech recognition and Spock’s request: So it was no surprise to find the […]
This recent post on the Atlantic: How CPR Became So Popular reminded me of a piece I wrote some time back – Doctors Die Differently. As I said then: Its not that doctors don’t want to die, its just that they knwo they know enough about modern medicine to know its limits, importantly they have […]
Video of the presentation from the Health2.0 show in October 2013 of the Florence DemonstrationYou can see Florence in action at the siteor in the video below
The short answer is yes – but I hear occasional stories and push back from clinicians and sometimes other healthcare staff – is it worth the spend and investment. Why not just wait for ICD-11 (Check out the beta draft of ICD-11 here). Why not just use SNOMED CT For the individual doctor taking care […]
A recent article in Becker Hospital Review: Technology Should Aid Human Interaction: Q&A with Dr. Nick Terheyden, CMIO of Nuance featured some important points to make Health IT needs to fade into the background. It needs to become part of the fabric of the office rather than the focal point, and then the interaction will change […]
via icims.com.au Intensive Care Information retrieval system from our friends down under showing the value of Natural Language Processing to get into the detail of clinical notes, understanding the underlying content. The demo shows the ability to get to information even when there have been typographical errors or use of abbreviations that either have multiple […]
via informationweek.com The new world of Mobile Healthcare will include an integral component in efficiency – the power of he clinicians voice. Cerner and Epic are The new mobile-native electronic health records (EHRs) systems of Epic and Cerner are being voice-enabled via recent deals with Nuance Communications Not only easy access to the world’s leading […]
A series of Forbes Insights profiles of thought leaders changing the business landscape: Gary Clayton, Chief Creative Officer, Nuance Apple’s Siri iPhone voice-based App interface has forever changed consumer expectations of how to interact with their computing devices. But Nuance’s Nina may represent an even bigger transformation—the consumerization of IT. Nuance has over 10,000 employees, $1.4 billion in […]
Please sit down — this will not be an easy article to digest, no matter how carefully I parse my words. Life under the microscope of Recovery Audit Contractors is going to get tougher for physicians. Three recent developments may impact your practice in the next year. I have written in the past on RACs […]
So there was a lot of interest in the paper published in JAMIA Method of electronic health record documentation and quality of primary care published on JAMI this month. A quick summary They evaluated 18,569 primary care visits, 234 doctors in 2007-08 •Note taking Breakdown –62% of free-text notes –29% structured documentation –9% mainly dictated […]
via freep.com Cars that understand what you say….coming to a car near you. Part of the ongoing push and the new age of speech recognition is the ability to understand what the driver asks for with interpretive system that include natural language processing (NLP) and some element of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to offer drivers a […]
