Patients deserve the same standard and car that doctors receive when they need treatment. But as I have said before (Doctors Die Differently and more recently Treatment Creep in Medicine – sucking Decency out of Patients) we remain challenged especially when it comes to dying. This piece by Dan Gorenstein, How Doctors Die: Showing Others the […]
It’s a long time ago but in many respects that first shift is still fresh in my memory and it all came flooding back when I read this great piece by Deepak Chopra: My First Job: My Dark Night As A Real Doctor He recounts his first night on call having arrived into work in a 400-bed community […]
I am excited to be joined by one of the keynote speakers from HIMSS13 conference Dr Eric Topol – Author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care and has been named in the list of the Top 100 Most Influential Physician Executive in Healthcare, 2012 by Modern […]
I am excited to be joined by one of the keynote speakers from HIMSS13 conference Dr Eric Topol – Author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care and has been named in the list of the Top 100 Most Influential Physician Executive in Healthcare, 2012 by Modern […]
Welcome to this new series, Topol on The Creative Destruction of Medicine, which is named for my new book, The Creative Destruction of Medicine. I’m Dr. Eric Topol, Director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and Editor-in-Chief of Medscape Genomic Medicine and theheart.org. In this series I will detail the driving forces behind what I […]
Share This article Earlier this year, well known cardiologist Eric Topol published his highly successful book, “The Creative Destruction of Medicine.” In it he describes several examples where smartphones, particularly the iPhone, have been morphed into first-rate medical devices with the potential to put clinical-level diagnostics in the hands of everyday users. Coincidentally, Topol was […]
By Ashish Jha, MD The wrong question always produces an irrelevant answer, no matter how well-crafted that answer might be. Unfortunately the debate on health information technology seems to be increasingly focused on the wrong question. An Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal argues that we have had a “Major Glitch” in the use of electronic […]
This month we will be Sep 7Brad Tritle (@BTritle)who is currenlty the chair of the HIMSS Social Media Task Force. He is currently co-editing a forthcoming HIMSS book on consumer engagement and consulting under the Office of the National Coordinator on consumer engagement for State HIEs and immunization registries. Amongst the areas of focus: Health Information Exchange Consumer […]
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 […]
This week I will be joined by Clint McClellan (Twitter @clintmc1) who is Sr. Dir. of Strategic Marketing at Qualcomm Life and the President and Chairman of the Continua Health Alliance. HE and I will be talking about the Continua Health Alliance which is a non-profit, open industry organization of healthcare and technology companieswho are collaborating to improve personal healthcare.They […]
Some interesting news pieces to review this week including The Value of the EHR “The Relationship Between Electronic Health Records and Malpractice Claims,” from the Archives of Internal Medicine on Jun 25 and featured in the AMED News: “EHR use linked to fewer medical liability claims” on July 16 A research letter published online June […]
July Voice of the Doctor Guests Jul 13Talking to Don Rosenthal (You can follow him on twitter @DonRosenthal) part of the original team that developed the scheduling system for the Hubble Space Telescope and ran the artificial intelligence group at NASA. HE is also the founder and CTO of Allocade and publishes a blog THITSE […]
Voice of the Doctor – JulyThis month we will be July 6I will be joined by my friend and colleague Reid Coleman who joined Nunace as the CMIO for Evidence Based Medicine. Reid was previously the CMIO for Lifespan. He and I both attended the recent Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems 21st annual […]
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 […]
June 15 Speaking with Ruthann Lipman, DO from the Department of Otolaryngology, Millcreek Community Hospital and David Eibling, MD, FACS from the Department of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh and VA Pittsburgh who are presenting a paper at Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) this October titled: “Re- engineering the Healthcare Team: Meeting the needs of Providers with Information Specialists” June 22 Joel Selzer (@jbselz), the CEO Ozmosis will […]
Clinical documentation is an increasingly time consuming challenge for clinicians offering significant pressures that are vested in a range of requirements not always tightly aligned with clinical decision making. (See Documentation Coding Burdens) Electronic Medical Records (EMR’s) have added to the burden of information capture and while the prevailing view is that EMR’s improve care (and […]
I’ll be joined this Friday by Roger Green a seasoned tech visionary on The Voice of the Doctor radio show at 2:30 pm ET. You can join the conversation: Stream the show live – click the Listen Live Now button on the site to launch our Internet radio player. You can also call in. A […]
