I haven’t heard much chatter in the informatics community about what the United States Surgeon General recently named as a public health challenge: parent and caregiver stress. Dr. Vivek Murthy called on legislators as…
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AI alert. One of the topics around the public health informatics virtual water cooler this week was about whether Google’s AI Overviews are negatively impacting patients.
Physicians have had a longstanding love / hate…
As I work on optimization projects with different care delivery organizations, I’m shocked by how much waste I see within the system. Many large health systems spent a significant amount of time and money…
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I enjoyed reading the results of Mr. H’s poll on company culture, where a full one-third of respondents said their company’s culture was worse today compared to a year ago. There’s always a disconnect…
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I’ve written previously about telehealth and the math that is needed to try to prove that it will result in overall savings to the healthcare economy. A recent JAMA viewpoint article further dissects the…
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The vast majority of HIStalk readers work with some of the larger or better-informed sectors of the healthcare IT industry — health systems, hospitals, large physician groups, technology vendors, governmental entities, and other similar…
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I’ve spent a fair amount of my career working with the underlying datasets and codes that make EHRs work, including ICD-9, ICD-10, SNOMED, LOINC, RxNorm, CPT, DSM, and HCPCS. Normally I’m not that excited…
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Nearly every health system has some kind of telehealth initiative in place even though rates of growth are much slower than they were during the height of the pandemic. Many of them are cautiously…
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Bain & Company recently released study findings looking at how patients perceive generative AI in healthcare. Long story short is that patients are more comfortable with AI tools taking notes during office visits or…
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I’ve spent my entire career in healthcare and healthcare IT. I have worked in a number of settings, from small private practices to large health systems, and from startup technology organizations to major EHR…
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