The hot topics around the physician lounge this week included new alerts in the EHR to help clinicians manage IV fluids efficiently. If you’re not aware, Hurricane Helene damaged Baxter International’s production facility earlier…
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As a longstanding supporter of virtual health care, an article published this week in JAMA caught my attention. It addresses the issue of disability rights and accessibility in virtual healthcare.
I’ve been involved in…
Just in time for the winter respiratory virus season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released new respiratory illness resources. New Community Snapshot content shows viral activity in different ways, including…
I had several friends attending the Becker’s Health IT + Digital Health + Revenue Cycle conference last week in Chicago. In sending me some impressions and notes, they all mentioned conversations around the topic…
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The American Medical Informatics Association has given a shout-out recognizing the 10-year anniversary of Clinical Informatics Fellowships and Clinical Informatics Board Certification. I still remember sitting through the all-day informatics exam the first…
The MedCity Moves Podcast is back with another episode. During the episode, Senior Reporter Katie Adams discussed some of the executive hires and exits occurring in the healthcare world over the past month —…
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A care delivery organization recently asked me to work on an AI project. They are looking at ways to incorporate generative AI into the clinical process, but didn’t want to use an off-the-shelf solution…
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The hot topic around the virtual physician lounge this week was an article from the American Medical Association (AMA) that identified “Five physician specialties that spend the most time in the EHR.”
Physicians were…
I spent several hours this weekend fighting with healthcare technology systems that haven’t been adapted to play nice with the new ways that some of us work as physicians.
In the past, many physicians…
The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association recently published an article that looked at whether generative AI can create discharge summaries and appropriately assign diagnosis codes for the conditions that are addressed…
