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Use Cases and Project Plans are not Enough – A CIO ’s guide to Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
When many of us started in healthcare IT, it was before the days of pervasive Electronic Medical Records. The largest employer in Kansas City wasn’t Cerner. Paper ruled the day in hospitals. Data Processing was used to print up massive reports so that residents and doctors could accomplish their daily tasks. PACS systems weren’t pervasive […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 22, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mitch Parker, CISO Tags: Healthcare IT Charles Conklin Clinical Risk Management Failure Mode and Effects Analysis FMEA Healthcare CIO Healthcare Leadership Hospital CIO IHI Institute for Healthcare Improvement IoMT Temple University Hospital Source Type: blogs

What can patients do to lower the risk of errors in their electronic medical records?
In a perfect world, an electronic medical record would aggregate a patient ’s medical information from all health care providers into a single, comprehensive record that could be easily accessed by any provider with the patient’s permission. This information could reduce the risk of medical errors, duplicate testing, and inappropriate treatment and the associated cost of […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 17, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/miles-j-varn" rel="tag" > Miles J. Varn, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Health IT Hospital-Based Medicine Primary Care Source Type: blogs

Flipping the Stack: Can New Technology Drive Health Care ’s Future?
Conclusion & Implications As with any analysis of technology promising “disruption”, the careful reader needs to ask themselves one primary question. Is this change real? Or is this just another PowerPoint from a futurist that will be brushed off by the “mother of all adaptive systems”? The technology trends we have described are already in motion. The question is, how big their impact will be in health care? And how long will it take? Here are a few suggestions for hospitals executives to help them understand the transition and assess the rate of change. Get familiar with the technologies...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Matthew Holt Flipping the Stack Indu Subaiya Source Type: blogs

COVID-19: It's Now Time for Health IT Vendors to Traffick in Patient Data
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Source: Health Care Renewal - April 10, 2020 Category: Health Management Tags: cerner comparative effectiveness research coronavirus COVID-19 data trafficking EHR electronic medical records EMR EPIC Flatiron google Source Type: blogs

Immediate Changes Needed for Physicians to Stay in Business During the Pandemic
Practices cannot survive the COVID-19 cash flow crisis By JEFF LIVINGSTON, MD Will doctors be able to keep their practices open during the worst pandemic in our lifetime? Our country needs every available doctor in the country to fight the challenges of Covid-19. Doctors working in independent practices face an immediate cash flow crisis threatening their ability to continue services. The CARES Act was signed into law on Friday, March 27, 2020. The law offers much-needed help to the acute needs of hospitals and the medical supply chain. This aid will facilitate the production of critical supplies such as...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 31, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Economics Physicians The Business of Health Care Jeff Livingston Medical Practice Pandemic private practice Source Type: blogs

A critical first step in helping physicians cope with the stresses of practice
The rapid advances of medical science, patients ’ expectations, the loss of autonomy, insurers’ regulations, fears of litigation, and the documentation burden of recording patient data on electronic medical records all contribute to widespread physician dissatisfaction, and cynicism with medical practice referred to simply as “burnout.” S ome have reduced their hours, some have quit medicine. Some […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 18, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/ed-volpintesta" rel="tag" > Edward J. Volpintesta, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs

Feeling the strain: what The Commonwealth Fund ’s 2019 international survey of general practitioners means for the UK
The Health Foundation -The Commonwealth Fund surveyed 13,200 primary care physicians across eleven countries between January and June 2019, including 1,001 GPs from the UK. In some aspects of care, the UK performs strongly and is an international leader. Almost all UK GPs surveyed use electronic medical records, and use of data to review and improve care is relatively high. The survey also highlights areas of concern for the NHS. Just six per cent of UK GPs report feeling ‘extremely’ or ‘very satisfied’ with their workload – the lowest of any country surveyed.ReportThe Health Foundation - publications (Source: He...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 5, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs

Artificial Intelligence Could Solve Alarm Fatigue in Hospitals
Have you heard of the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf? It goes something like this: once upon a time, there was a shepherd boy who would cry for help for an impending wolf attack. This was naturally taken seriously by the village’s shepherds who would go on to protect their herd. However, it turns out that the fun-loving boy was just teasing the villagers and there was no wolf in sight. But the problem was, he would do this repeatedly until no one would take him seriously, even on the day when he saw an actual wolf and no one heeded his call for help. This analogy aligns very well with what is known as alarm fatigue i...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 13, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Design Hospital hospital design Source Type: blogs

Burned out on Burnout?
Conclusion Learning how to pay attention to our attention (meta-attention) can be transformative. Using principles from cognitive science, we can create a comprehensive approach (attention capital theory in medicine) to reclaim the meaning and joy that has been depleted from our profession. Increasing the difficulty of our work to match our skill level, delegating low-level tasks to help us focus on critical steps in our physician zone, creating rules to eliminate distractions, and noticing both the wonder and suffering around us may be more important than resilience training or wellness modules. Although well-intention...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 12, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Burnout physician burnout physician wellness Sanj Katyal Source Type: blogs

Mindray ’s New High End Point of Care Ultrasound
Mindray is releasing a new point-of-care ultrasound system, the TE7 ACE. The device, intended for a variety of applications including emergency, critical care, and anesthesia, features a large color touchscreen, fluid management features, needle guidance toolkit, and electronic medical records connectivity. The company claims that the fluid measurement algorithms within this ultrasound are based on deep learning methods and are clinically proven to provide accurate results. Other algorithms can measure the changing diameter of the inferior vena cava (IVC), its Collapsibility Index or Distensibility Index and IVC Variati...
Source: Medgadget - January 27, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Ob/Gyn Radiology Urology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs

BioethicsTV (January 21-24, 2020): #NewAmsterdam; #ChicagoMed
New Amsterdam (Seaons 2; Episode 11): Role of electronic medical records; Experimental medicine; Chicago Med (Season 5; Episode 12): When the personal compromises the professional New Amsterdam (Seaons 2; Episode 11): Role of electronic medical records; Experimental medicine Goodwin makes a new policy that no screens are allowed in patient rooms—no tablets, cellphones, laptops, or computers. The reaction from the doctors is fast and furious—”that isn’t possible.” They need screens to document patient information and to know the name of the patient in front of them.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 27, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Craig Klugman Tags: BioethicsTV Featured Posts #ChicagoMed #NewAmsterdam Source Type: blogs

Top Artificial Intelligence Companies in Healthcare to Keep an Eye On
The field of medical AI is buzzing. More and more companies set the purpose to disrupt healthcare with the help of artificial intelligence. Given how fast these companies come and go, it can prove to be hard to stay up-to-date with the most promising ones. Here, I collected the biggest names currently on the market ranging from start-ups to tech giants to keep an eye on in the future. To further help you keep up with what A.I. brings to medicine, The Medical Futurist team made an easy-to-digest e-book about just that. I highly encourage you to read it and would love to hear about your thoughts! Artificial Intelligence has ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 21, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Design AI digital health genetics Innovation Personalized medicine pharma GC1 big data drug development healthcare companies medical imaging Source Type: blogs

It Seems That Patients All Over Really Are Not Wanting To Browse Their Electronic Medical Records Very Often.
This appeared last week:National hospital data shows patients not accessing EHRs By Greg SlabodkinDecember 16, 2019, 12:05 a.m. EST While more than 95 percent of patients discharged from hospitals were able to view, download and transmit their electronic health records, just 10 percent actually used the information, according to national hospital data.A study published in the journal Health Affairs leveraged nationwide data from 2,410 hospitals and found that patient use of EHRs was disproportionately low across all hospital types —although access rates were highest among system-member, teaching and for-profit hospi...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - December 25, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

The Intrusion of Big Tech into Healthcare Threatens Patients ’ Rights
By ANDREW DORSCH, MD The question of how much time I spend in front of the screen has pestered me professionally and personally. A recent topic of conversation among parents at my children’s preschool has been how much screen time my toddlers’ brain can handle. It was spurred on by a study in JAMA Pediatrics that evaluated the association between screen time and brain structure in toddlers. The study reported that those children who spent more time with electronic devices had lower measures of organization in brain pathways involved in language and reading. As a neurologist, these findings worry m...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 24, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Data Health Tech Health Technology Andrew Dorsch Ascension EMR Health Data HIPAA The OpEd Project Source Type: blogs