Speech Technology Speech recognition offers efficiencies today but recent innovations and new technologies will expand the horizon of opportunity with speech technologies that will change the human computer interface, simplifying the interaction and offering new and innovative tools that increase efficiency and safety of healthcare delivery and reduce the administrative burden and decrease costs. Medical […]
and improve the quality of healthcare!HealthImaging featured a report Medical errors cost U.S. $17 billion in 2008 which estimated that This figure amounted to 0.72 percent of the $2.39 trillion spent on healthcare that year in the U.S. The study identified the sources based on medical claims estimating: 564,000 inpatient injuries (1.5 percent of all […]
Ross Martin MD (founder of the American College of Medical Informatimusicology as part of his self-proclamation as the world’s leading singer/songwriter of health information technology standards development organization songs) has written a new song – a Rap this time on Meaningful Use. Driven by a desire to bring the “Pants on the Ground” by General […]
Fresh from an exciting and busy week at HIMSS in Orlando that was topped off with a personal highlight – witnessing the space shuttle launch from a Passenger Jet and the video: There continues to be tremendous interest and excitement surrounding the potential for IBM’s Jeopardy champion (Watson) to enhance medicine and ignite discussion on […]
It was an exciting news day today with the announcement of a Strategic partnership between Nuance and 3M. Lots of coverage and keen interest from the press and healthcare industry as evidenced by the 290,000 search results in Google by 15:30 ET. While many of the news links were picking up 3M’s Press Release and […]
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 […]
We are facing significant changes to the world of clinical documentation with the big push encompassed in the Meaningful Use requirements that push provides and healthcare facilities inexorably towards an electronic medical record (EMR) but there remain significant concerns over the potential impact these solutions can and will have on our clinical documentation. In this […]
Mike Elgan said so……: Say it with me: Voice is ready for prime time, It’s time for the victory of voice to shout down the tyranny of text in this enlightening piece that had many comments all in the positive relative the to advance of technology Talking is the best user interface…Language is natural to […]
The topic of hours and fatigue in medicine continues to rumble on with no real resolution in site. A couple of recent articles and news items highlighted the continuing challenges. The Daily Mail reported the Coroners’ comments and verdict in this piece (Coroner hits out at doctors’ hours after patient dies) and Doctors.Net also featured […]
The latest in a an annual competition looking for unusual and innovative users of Dragon the winner of the 2010 I speak Dragon contest EvanUp posted a story Dragon NaturallySpeaking: a matchmaker – a truly heart warming story of adversity that was overcome by chance introduction linked to Dragon and culminated in marriage……EvanUp the author […]
Perhaps a better strategy might be not eating the burger and shake rather than offering packets of Statins to go with excess fat and food intake:A Burger, Shake, and Some StatinsBut practical challenges seem to prevent our ever increasingly over weight society from moderating input so this could prove to be a practical approach that […]
Nuance released their latest offering for the iPhone today (as previewed at HIMSS 2010)- it was reviewed in several journals including AppAdvice: Dragon Search Goes Medical with a favorable review Once again, Nuance Communications has another excellent app on their hands, although this one is much more narrowly tailored. But if you’re working in the […]
Guest posting on Healthcare IT Central today that featured a Day in the Life of a CMIO (thanks to Gwen Darling for posting). As I state in the piece What follows is modeled on the Hollywood principle to make a series interesting – compress activity that might span days, weeks and even months into a […]
NPR featured a segment recently on the reducing unnecessary scans “Requiring Doctors To Justify Scans Reduces Waste” with a simple 9 point scale to demonstrate the value of a test in the diagnostic process. Low score means the test has limited or no value and high score means the test has a high chance of […]
IN a study that holds little surprise to me (declaration I own no Apple stock and am not linked to them in any way aside from being a user): Doctors Choose iPhone over BlackBerry. While there may be much wrong with Apple product they get one very important aspect right – usability. I’ve said it […]
The Atlantic featured a post by David Rothman that presented an iPad Stimulus plan: A national information stimulus plan: How iPad-style tablets could help educate millions and trim bureaucracy–not just be techno toys for the D.C. elite. Hold on – don’t give up quite yet, it’s not quite as crazy as it sounds and he […]
Harvard business review blogger Jeff Goldsmith wrote a pretty damming write up on the healthcare technology sector: “Has the US Health Technology Sector Run out of Gas“. He covers the lack of recent innovation and development across the board including pharmaceuticals, medical devices and even the once promising bio technology and personalized medicine/gene therapy concepts. […]
Through provoking piece in the Washington Post today – Health Reform’s Next Test by Jim Yong Kim and James N Weinstein at Dartmouth Hitchkcock. As they state It is well known that U.S. health-care costs, as a share of our economy, are the highest in the world but that compared to other industrialized countries, our […]
In an article in the April 29 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine titled What’s Keeping Us So Busy in Primary Care? A Snapshot from One Practice (pdf) Richard Baron analyzes his practices activities. What is surprising is the extent to which non-reimbursed activities are part of the general work.The breakdown of services […]
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 […]
Everyone agrees we need codified structured data for problem lists, medication, allergies and labs…….or do they? John Halmka wrote a piece for HealthcareIT News earlier this month titled “Rethinking Clinical Documentation” in which he asks what is the role of unstructured clinical documentation text In many instances there has been an attempt to drive unstructured […]
