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Wasting the day away: EHRs continue to be a time suck

August 17, 2017 By Edgar Wilson 2 Comments

Wasting the day away: EHRs continue to be a time suck

To discuss EHRs is to discuss time. From their inception, EHRs were lauded as a potential time-saver. Less time would be needed searching for records and moving lab or imaging results between clinics, departments, or specialists. More time would be available for face-to-face ...

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Access and allies: The war over healthcare

June 13, 2017 By Edgar Wilson Leave a Comment

Access and allies: The war over healthcare

I often wonder where the fight is more contentious: the one raging inside, or the one outside the healthcare system? The way that we talk about healthcare almost everywhere is remarkably zero-sum; it seems none of the stakeholders can conceive of the future of the system in a ...

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Can AI in health IT save lives, yet simultaneously ruin your career?

April 5, 2017 By Edgar Wilson 1 Comment

Can AI in health IT save lives, yet simultaneously ruin your career?

Who is accountable when a self-driving vehicle gets into an accident? As automakers scramble to bring new and innovative autonomous vehicles and features to market, the legal world remains unprepared for robots to take over the roads. “Autonomous” isn’t even clearly defined ...

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Culture clash? Healthcare with business characteristics

February 28, 2017 By Edgar Wilson 1 Comment

Culture clash? Healthcare with business characteristics

Doctors – especially those new to the medical profession – are increasingly earning business degrees in addition to MDs. Sometimes they complete a separate MBA program; others are flocking to hybrid programs that teach business essentials along with clinical medicine. This ...

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How to change an unhealthy industry culture

January 25, 2017 By Edgar Wilson 1 Comment

How to change an unhealthy industry culture

We’ve spent much of the last few years framing challenges in healthcare as, “We need people that ______.” We need people that can help deconstruct data and work silos; we need people that can improve the user experience on EHRs; we need people that have clinical experience ...

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[#HITsm chat 11.18.16] Celebrate Passing the #HITsm Torch

November 15, 2016

Moderated by Chad Johnson, @OchoTex, HealthStandards.com Editor and Corepoint Health Senior Marketing Manager. November 18th will be the last #HITsm chat under @HealthStandards. Celebrate ‘Passing the #HITsm torch’ to @techguy @HealthcareScene.

Passing the #HITsm torch

November 10, 2016

The first #HITsm tweet chat was held almost six years ago on Jan 10, 2011. Since that time, we have hosted approximately 280 #HITsm chats. While some of you may have participated in that very first chat (only 15 actually participated), I’m proud to say that the chats and the community have continued to grow […]

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Podcasts

‘Hactivist’ Fred Trotter on the Cancer Moonshot, open source data in healthcare, and more

August 3, 2016

Artificial intelligence is a topic that isn’t going away in the health IT and medical community. One reason it’s come as far as it has is thanks to open sourcing, or shared data. Today’s guest, Fred Trotter, has a lot to say about the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot initiative – which he was recognized for […]

Sue Schade on gender equality, CIO challenges, and value-based healthcare

July 27, 2016

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