This week’s encounter with Big Health System brought additional frustrations, along with a profound desire to sell them consulting services.
My appointment was scheduled with a nurse practitioner. It was supposed to be…
It’s been a bumpy couple of weeks. I have spent more time than I generally prefer in the patient, family, and caregiver role.
I hate to say that I saw mostly the bad and…
I wrote earlier this month about an article that examined whether physicians think their peers who use AI are less competent. I brought this up in a recent conversation with other clinical informaticists to…
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Hot off the presses, the new Oracle Health EHR has received certification for ambulatory use and approval for electronic prescribing of controlled substances.
Oracle claims that the EHR was built independently of the original…
It’s that time of year when clinical informatics types come together to let their freak flags fly, otherwise known as the AMIA Annual Symposium.
This is one of my favorite conferences, largely because…
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House Rx, which provides technology and expertise to support specialty clinics performing in-clinic “medically integrated dispensing” instead of sending prescriptions to specialty pharmacies, raises $55 million in Series B equity.
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NCQA is accepting public comments on the AI standards that it is proposing for its 2027 Health Plan Accreditation and Health Plan Ratings program. Patients, health plan stakeholders, healthcare professionals, state agencies, and…
The hot news around the telehealth virtual water cooler this week was the new CMS billing requirement that telehealth physicians list their actual location rather than an office address. The previous requirements allowed us…
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Physicians around the virtual water cooler became excited earlier in the week when we heard that ChatGPT was going to start restricting how it manages medical and legal queries. The headlines were great,…
The American Medical Association recently announced the launch of its Center for Digital Health and AI. It stated that it was “created to put physicians at the center of shaping, guiding, and implementing technologies…
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