Over the past 10 years, US hospitals have rapidly adopted Electronic Health Record systems because of federal mandates that included both carrots and sticks. The US federal government pumped 87 billion US dollars into the market by giving multi-million dollar rewards to hospitals that adopted EHR systems and, in 2017, hospitals that have failed to […]
Author: Julie Earnest
$400 Million Boondoggle
Another Boondoggle. As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle on 12/15/2016: “A huge project to modernize medical record-keeping for California prison inmates has more than doubled in cost from original estimates to nearly $400 million in just three years, the latest in a long string of computer projects that have befuddled state government.” Even for those […]
Bridging the Communications Gap Between Healthcare and IT
One of the great challenges of Electronic Medical Records adoption is bridging the divide between clinic-speak and IT-speak. For those of us who have worked on both sides of the divide, it is easy to see that even experience cannot reconcile the abundance of information in healthcare and in information technology. What can help is maintaining […]
Ta-blet or Not Ta-blet, That is the Question
In a recent article in Becker’s Health IT & CIO Review, Jessica Cohen reports that according to a report done by IBM Institute for Business Value of healthcare CIOs and other executives, findings indicate that 71% of CIOs and only 59% of other executives believe that mobile solutions will have a significant impact on their organizations […]
Are Computers Getting Ready to Supercede Doctors’ Diagnoses?
A recent small scale study by Harvard Medical School indicates that software symptom-checkers still have a long way to go when identifying the reasons for medical conditions. This result seemed fairly consistent across different software so it is more a statement of the readiness of these systems rather than the accuracy of any one in […]
Échapper au Piège DSE
Dans un récent article paru dans le New England Journal of Medicine intitulé “Échapper au piège de DSE – l’avenir de la santé IT“, le Dr Kenneth Mandi et le Dr Isaac Kohane présentent un argument fort pour le changement perturbateur dans l’espace de DSE comme suit: «La santé fournisseurs de TI doivent adopter des […]
Escapar del Círculo Vicioso de HME
En un reciente artículo en el New England Journal of Medicine titulado “Escapar del Círculo Vicioso de HME – el Futuro de la Salud de IT“, el Dr. Kenneth Mandi y el Dr. Isaac Kohane presentan un fuerte argumento a favor de un cambio disruptivo en el espacio EHR de la siguiente manera: “Salud proveedores […]
Papel, Papel de Todo el Mundo , Pero no una Gota de Tinta
Un artículo reciente sobre medium.com titulado “UCSF enfermeras piden a alguien para construir estos productos” Por Fiahna Cabana, Desiree Matloob, y Priyanka Agarwal incluye lo siguiente: ‘Frontline enfermeras atienden a casi todas las necesidades básicas de un paciente. Al hacerlo, a menudo malabares con hasta 25 hojas de papel con información crítica. Idealmente, las enfermeras podrían […]