Several people have asked for my opinion about Bee, which Amazon is acquiring. The company makes the Pioneer, a wearable that records and transcribes your day. It captures not only what you say, but…
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JAMA Network Open recently published an Original Investigation titled “Patient Care Technology Disruptions Associated With the CrowdStrike Outage.” The UCSD authors found disruptions at 759 of 2,200 hospitals during the July 19, 2024 outage,…
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Mr. H is running a poll that asks, “Is it ethical for doctors to prescribe the drugs of their pharma sponsors to people who seek specific treatments?” He also posed a couple of follow-up…
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It’s been one of those weeks where I’m pulled in so many directions I’m not sure which way I’m supposed to be going. Just when I think I’ve finished something, another obstacle turns…
There’s always a lot of buzz around wearables. The majority of US adults have a smartphone in their pocket or purse, so a treasure trove of data can be collected without adding a secondary…
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I finally had time to dig into the recent paper about the “accumulation of cognitive debt” that happens when using AI assistants.
As a proud member of Generation X, I first experienced those…
I’ve spent a lot of my career working on the “softer” side of clinical informatics, such as change management, governance, adoption, and optimization. Although I’ve implemented a couple of technologies in my career…
I’m not a superfan of The Joint Commission, but I was interested to see their press release about partnering with the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) to create AI best practices for the…
The Journal of Graduate Medical Education published a thought-provoking article this week titled “A Eulogy for the Primary Care Physician.” It reflects on the original purpose of a primary care physician as the trusted…
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The two hot topics around the virtual physician lounge this week, not surprisingly, involved comments or policies from the new Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Physicians are dreading upcoming changes in vaccine reimbursement,…
