Post Author: Brian Clare, MD

I care about structured data. Here’s why you should, too.

Tech

May 6, 2015

The government has doled out nearly $20 billion in incentive payments since 2010 for its meaningful use program in order to nudge physicians towards adopting electronic health records (EHR). U.S. hospital systems and physician practices pay billions annually to EHR vendors in order to qualify for those meaningful use incentive dollars and prevent penalty payments in the future.

EHR adoption has modernized the practice of medicine in innumerable ways. However, documentation …

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The documentation solution your patients want you to adopt

Brian Clare, MD

Tech

February 13, 2015

Remember the Latin phrase “Primum non nocere”? It means “First, do no harm.” Most of us physicians committed to it when reciting the Hippocratic Oath, back when we were first embarking on our careers in medicine.

Sadly, today’s technology threatens this sacred physician-patient relationship. Electronic health records (EHRs), although much-needed, have created perverse, unintended consequences for the patient experience.

To be clear, EHRs are inherently good. They’re the backbone of better-coordinated care, …

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