Many physicians enjoy seeing antique medical equipment or visiting care delivery sites that aren’t your standard brick and mortar medical office building, and I’m no exception. One of my favorite museums is the…
Faculty at Washington University in St. Louis have released a tool called the Social Media Use Scale, which can use information about various types of social media to develop insights about user personality and…
Continue Reading
I will never stop being amazed at the stories of physicians and others who believe they can commit healthcare fraud and get away with it. Especially with the use of computerized systems for billing,…
Continue Reading
HIMSS finally sent out a communication about changes to its conference offering. The email was sent by President Hal Wolf and described the change as “a landmark partnership with Informa Markets to propel the…
Continue Reading
It’s been a good four months since I last tried to use generative AI to see if I could be replaced as a blogger. I had some downtime with one of my favorite computer…
Continue Reading
Big tech companies — including Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft — have signed on to a White House initiative to create AI safeguards. The companies have agreed to ensure safety in AI products prior…
Continue Reading
There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t see an article or hear commentary about how AI is going to somehow cause the end of the world. Earlier this month, it caused…
Continue Reading
I’ve been surprised by how much conversation I’ve heard about this Epic study in the virtual physician lounge. One of the key purposes of the study was to look at trends in documentation over…
Continue Reading
In my past life, I did a fair amount of medicolegal consulting. Although I don’t regularly work in that space anymore, I’m mentoring a young clinical informaticist that finds himself thrown into that space…
Continue Reading
In advance of the holiday, the HHS Office of Inspector General dropped this sweet hundred-plus page final rule on information blocking. It includes the details of the civil monetary penalties that health IT developers…
Continue Reading
