“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
“Why does an overwhelming cognitive load burden on physicians matter?For starters and perhaps most obviously, the amount of information physicians must process is a primary contributor to burnout. Factors cited by physicians, according to the latest comprehensive survey by Medscape,include too… Read more
“… Hospitals looking to establish precision medicine programs may need to investigate niche vendors, rather than relying on EMR [i.e. — electronic medical record a.k.a. electronic health record system] functionalities, according to a KLAS Research report. KLAS interviewed providers about their… 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
“The lack of electronic health record interoperability and sharing of patient data continue to be major barriers to value-based care in Medicare. That’s the consensus of healthcare stakeholders who testified late last week before the House Energy and Commerce Health… Read more
“I appreciated the article on cognitive biases and diagnostic error by Mull et al in the November 2015 issue. They presented an excellent description of the pitfalls of diagnosis as reflected in a case of a patient misdiagnosed with heart failure who… 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