“In the medium term, addressing the burnout crisis will require significant changes to the usability of electronic health records (EHRs), including reform of certification standards by the federal government; improved interoperability; the use of application programming interfaces (APIs) by vendors;… Read more
“1. Value-based care. ‘The concept of value over volume was much-discussed in 2018, and the push for outcomes-based care will continue to progress in 2019 as the industry strives to lower costs and provide higher quality care for individuals and… Read more
“Being a Better Robot than Robots is Not the Goal The doctor of the future is going to have a sidekick. It may be a little round metal thing, or a glass, or an avatar, or whatever IBM or Google… Read more
“Using IT to help achieve patient engagement and experience … Rising efforts to achieve digital health … Accelerating the use of AI [artificial intelligence] and data visualization … Rising importance of population health management … Growing efforts by payers to… Read more
“Addiction, poverty, hunger, the absence of a social safety net, and lack of access to adequate health care are all routine parts of my work week. No single detail of that baby’s parents’ lives was outside my norm. Yet for… Read more
“Physicians on the front lines of health care today are sometimes described as going to battle. It’s an apt metaphor. Physicians, like combat soldiers, often face a profound and unrecognized threat to their well-being: moral injury. Moral injury is frequently… Read more
“Digital transformation (DX) is creating dynamic, decentralized, data-driven, automated, and self-learning workloads that must be integrated and orchestrated to deliver business solutions in this new world. A digital innovation strategy that does not include integration falls short of transformation, and… Read more
“Empiric Health raised $3 million in super seed financing from Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, the startup announced Nov. 29. Empiric Health analyzes hospital data to inform changes in physician behavior. The Salt Lake City-based startup’s goal is to streamline physicians’… Read more
“Currently, the competence of individual residents and fellows is evaluated at the program level with widely varied tools and approaches — usually based on subjective assessments in which, as in Garrison Keillor’s fictional Lake Wobegon, everyone is “above average.” The… Read more
“Using data to drive operational efficiencies in clinical systems is step one, according to Mr. Bartley [Andy Bartley, senior solutions architect at Intel Corp]. However, he believes predictive analytics can be used for much more — it can help hospitals… Read more