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,…
You really don’t know how much you rely on certain technologies until they’re not available.
At one of our local hospitals, a PACS upgrade during daytime hours threw quite a few clinicians for a…
As a consultant working with care delivery organizations, I see many of them using “access” as some kind of a performance mantra. Whether it’s access to book a visit with a physician in…
Healthcare isn’t the only industry grappling with how AI should, or should not, fit into our daily work.
Some friends who are teachers sent me the transcript of a recent discussion about how AI…
From Boomer Sooner: “Re: Stanford’s EHR summary tool. The Department of Defense also recently launched an AI summary tool to help with the review of applicant records.” I know a thing or two about…
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People often ask me about the kinds of things that excite me within healthcare IT. I have to admit that despite the amount of money that has poured into the industry over the last…
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As one might expect, the hot topic around the virtual physician lounge this week was the accuracy of the “Make America Health Again” report, which appeared to be at least partially co-authored by some…
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It’s been just about two and a half years since OpenAI released an early version of ChatGPT, sparking panic for some who believed that AI tools would take control and drive humans to extinction….
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As someone who has had to sit through entirely too many training sessions about the importance of protecting your laptop when you’re in public, I couldn’t help but stop and take a picture when…
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The American Medical Informatics Association hosted its Clinical Informatics Conference this week in Anaheim. It’s a relatively small meeting compared to some of the healthcare IT blowouts, with a reported attendance of just over…
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