We are approaching yet another threatened US government shutdown. In the virtual physician lounge this weekend, the hot topic was the telehealth mess that a shutdown would create.
Congress has not agreed on temporary…
Autumn has arrived in the US, and with it the corporate compliance season. Nearly all the companies I’ve worked for do their mandatory training programs in September, October, and November, so I’m getting hit…
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I am always up for a good read. I tend to read more fiction than anything else, but a couple of non-fiction offerings caught my eye recently.
“Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear…
This week marks the fifth annual Telehealth Awareness Week with the American Telemedicine Association hosting numerous online events. Many of the clinicians I know didn’t have any awareness of telemedicine prior to the COVID…
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I recently got together with some of my longest-standing healthcare IT colleagues. We were reminiscing about “the good old days” when health systems implemented EHRs because it was the right thing for patients.
Our…
Most of us have seen images created by AI, whether we realize it or not. Sometimes they’re easy to spot, such as when people don’t have the correct numbers of digits or have atypical…
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Several readers have reached out about my recent piece that mentioned cell phone bans in schools. One reader shared an article that cites outcomes data from high school that had a previous ban in…
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In the spirit of “no good deed goes unpunished,” insurance giant Cigna Healthcare creates a new reimbursement policy that adds additional scrutiny for certain high-level evaluation and management codes, which could lead to those…
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ChatGPT maker OpenAI will reportedly build its own healthcare applications.
The company has hired former health tech executives from Doximity and the investment community.
Business Insider reports that OpenAI is considering…
Researchers from Indiana University have created an algorithm that helps clinicians search through patient data from health information exchanges and other sources. The tool identifies the most relevant data for a given visit such…
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