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5 ways that healthcare IT must get better
Yesterday I had the honor of speaking at a large event in Cambridge, Massachusetts, about how healthcare information technology needs to better integrate itself with the realities of frontline...
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Healthcare information technology: new rules
Information technology clearly has a long way to go before it delivers on the immense promise of technology to truly improve healthcare. Most of the current solutions—quickly rolled out in response to...
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If you spend more than 80% of your day on the computer, you are no longer a...
The use of healthcare information technology has increased exponentially over the last five years, and as a frontline physician I have seen this change at close quarters. In most of the hospitals I’ve...
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How healthcare IT can produce lower quality robotic records
Despite the well-known rollout problems for hospitals and clinics across the nation, there are many palpable and welcome advantages to using Electronic Health Records. Chief among these are the ability...
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Not letting a computer come between me and my patients
Ask any frontline physician at the moment what one of their biggest daily frustrations is and you will probably hear a very similar thing whether you are talking to a primary care, emergency room, or...
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An example of the mobile technology we need in healthcare: a Future iPhone App
Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) is something that every physician up and down the country will be familiar with. For anyone non-medical reading this, it’s the process by which physician...
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The negative side of Electronic Medical Records for being a good doctor
One of the topic’s that I’ve written most about on this blog, and also do a considerable amount of non-clinical consulting work on, is how we can improve healthcare information technology and...
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How to be more like that “old school physician”
The term “old school” in many facets of life has negative connotations. We live in a modern, technologically advanced and fast-paced world—and there’s no room for certain people who appear to hold us...
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What has become of these marvelous doctors?
One of the topics that I write most about on this blog is the interaction of healthcare information technology with frontline clinical medicine, which I believe to be among the most critical issues...
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Healthcare IT: Have we now reached a critical mass?
One of the topics I’ve written most about on this blog has been our woes with inefficient and cumbersome electronic medical records (EMRs). I started writing about this subject at least three years...
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What I do every day to get away from my computer screen and be a good doctor...
I enjoy being a physician. I really enjoy being a physician. Although much of my blog is focused on areas where we need to improve healthcare, with a particular recent focus on the burdens of...
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Why healthcare information technology may never improve
One of the topics I write most about and have also done a considerable amount of consulting work on, is improving and optimizing healthcare information technology. I hate to say this, but after a few...
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A great battle is on for the heart and soul of medicine
Healthcare has undergone innumerable changes over the last decade, and the pace of change only appears to be accelerating. At the crux of most of the changes we’ve seen, is the central problem that...
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The Greek Tragedy of electronic medical records for our physicians
I’ve spent a lot of time writing on this blog about the suboptimal nature of electronic medical records and what we need to be doing better. At their best, healthcare information technology systems...
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A 5-point Immediate Action Plan for Healthcare Information Technology
Following my latest article on healthcare information technology, and how tragic the situation has become for physicians, I received a lot of correspondence. As always with articles that express...
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3 examples of how healthcare information technology can impede good...
As many of you know from reading this blog, much of my focus has been on how we can improve healthcare information technology, and build on the systems that we currently have to make them more...
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5 ways healthcare IT can impede good communication & patient safety, and what...
The frontlines of healthcare have been transformed over the last decade as electronic medical records have been rolled out across America. Unfortunately, information technology has yet to live up to...
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Healthcare IT: the frontline physician search for better solutions
I recently gave a keynote presentation to a large information technology company based just outside Boston. My talk focused on the history of healthcare IT, how we got to where we are today, and the...
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Code Blue Technology: Why is nobody listening?
Since I started my blog about 5 years ago, one of the topics I’ve been writing about from the beginning—which concerned me most about the healthcare frontlines—was the suboptimal technology being...
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