Weekly Roundup – October 29, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week. Doctors Love Alerts – Until They Don’t. The idea behind the alerts to help doctors get the information they need quickly to improve patient care. The problem is that EHR alerts are great until doctors stop looking at them – and with hundreds of alerts streaming into the average EHR every day, John Lynn said he’s worried the EHR may soon look like the email inbox with 10,000 unread messages. Read more… Is Disruptive Innovation Really Such A Good Thing? It’s been 25 years since Clayton Christensen first described disruptive innovation. Anne Zieger reflected on the limitations of disruptive innovation in healthcare – namely, the long and slow path of wearable and telemedicine adoption despite years (if not decades) of hype – and called on innovators to instead focus on healthcare’s more pressing problems. Read more… How Greenway Health’s EHR Addresses Health Equity. Colin Hung sat down with Greenway Health CMO Dr. Michael Blackman about new EHR features that capture and display health equity information at the point of care. The EHR can recommend food assistance programs if a patient lives in a food desert, for example, or suggest virtual visits if ...
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