A new survey has found that while most healthcare organizations take patient engagement seriously, few are satisfied with the state of their efforts. On top of...
Tag - Electronic Medical Records
Wouldn’t it be nice if the advent of EHRs made it more likely that information in medical records was accurate? Sadly, that’s hardly the case. In fact, patient...
A group providing hospitalist physicians on contract has learned the hard way that sharing PHI with vendors is a no-no unless the vendor has signed a business...
As we all know, patients and families are taking over responsibility for a steadily greater percentage of their healthcare costs over time. Not surprisingly...
A new survey by the Medical Group Management Association has found that meeting the demands of the Medicare Quality Payment Program tops the list of regulatory...
Most physicians have some sense of the value personalized medicine can bring to their practice, but I doubt that many have ready access to the tools they’d...
A researcher with a Google AI team, Google Brain, has published a paper describing how AI could help physicians complete patient documentation more quickly...
In mid-2017, the news broke that EHR vendor eClinicalWorks had agreed to pay $155 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit brought by a former employee. The...
It’s becoming predictable: A company offering AI assistant for scheduling medical appointments thinks that consumers want to use Amazon’s Alexa to...
In a recent post, my colleague John Lynn argued that EHRs won’t survive if they stick to a centralized model. He contends — I think correctly —...