This months episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of March 2022 As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. We review the recent in person events we both attended in Florida this past month, both coming away with […]
Headlines this week have provided much confusion in the march towards digitization of healthcare that were based on a Stanford study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine: Electronic Health Records and Clinical Decision Support Systems with a conclusion: Our findings indicate no consistent association between EHRs and CDS and better quality. These results raise concerns about the ability […]
As is often the cases conflicting information in the media on the benefits of screen, x-rays and healthcare.This piece in the NY Times: CT Scans Cut Lung Cancer Deaths, Study Finds suggests that annual CT Scans of current and former smokers reduces the risk of death form lung cancer: Annual CT scans of current and […]
In an interesting article in HealthAffairs this month “Mixed Results In The Safety Performance Of Computerized Physician Order Entry” (abstract only – subscription required for full article) the authors carried out a simulation of Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) effectiveness. It is a unique study with a relatively small sample size (62 facilities) that was […]
