When you go to see the doctor, how do they know (a) if you are due for any preventive health screenings like mammography or (b) if you have a chronic condition, if it is being monitored and managed?
And actually, not just if it is being monitored or managed, but are you able to achieve your life goals with good health? And what about …
How a patient support tool works to help patients and doctors
by John Rossheim
What’s the latest tool for recruiting the best clinicians to your hospital? Is it the professional pride of being associated with an organization that provides the best care in the region? Is it showing respect for the growing number of clinicians who seek to work hard but protect their personal lives from excessive intrusions in the form of frequent on-call duty or mandatory …
How your EHR can help with physician recruiting
Radiology has transformed into a core subject of medicine, since imaging procedures are getting more and more crucial to clinical decisions. Whether these developments, be it over-diagnosing or unnecessary radiation on the one hand or a more detailed and enhanced way of diagnostics on the other, are …
How Microsoft Kinect can help in radiology to view a CT or MRI
Doctors are now incentivized to convert antiquated paper charts to electronic medical records.
Despite a few doctors who love their EMR, most readers here at KevinMD.com are skeptical, as the difficulties in transitioning, along with questionable benefits, have been well chronicled.
Recently, the Washington …
How to convince doctors to embrace electronic medical records
From Medicare/Medicaid incentives to EHR industry ads, it is hard to cut through the hype and determine if your practice is even ready to try to select and implement an EHR.
Implementing an EHR is a transformational exercise for any practice that requires redesigning every aspect of charting, clinical workflow and interaction with patients. However, in too many cases, practices approach EHR …
Supportive physicians and management to implement an EHR
If you are one of the more than 100 million Americans who visit emergency rooms (ER) at least once a year, you’re not alone.
Americans, insured and not, make ample use of hospital emergency rooms. One out of every five visited an ER at least once in 2007, the latest year for which the National Center for Health Statistics …
Danger of multiple emergency room visits to different hospitals
iMedicalApps reviewed some recent news articles regarding business/enterprise adoption of the iPad as a legitimate alternative to Windows machines in the workplace, taking it as a sign that healthcare IT is poised to adopt it, too: “All in all, these developments bode well for the adoption of the iPhone and iPad as a mainstream, IT-blessed mobile healthcare solution.”
iPad …
What will prevent the iPad from dominating health care IT?
My current practice is getting ready to go live on Electronic Medical Records (EMR), but it’s taken us over a year to get here. When I first started this job, we were supposed to go live with EMR in two months. After I’d had a chance to speak with everyone, I just knew the timing wasn’t right for the EMR. We would need to be able to run, and at …
Signs that your practice is ready for EMR
I love experimenting with different ways to use technology within my pediatric practice. The iPad has been an amazing device to adapt and use with my families.
Here are 5 different ways I use the iPad with my patients at the point-of-care.
5 ways I use my iPad at pediatric point of care
My oncologist’s office implemented a new EMR system when I was in the middle of chemo. Once the nurses learned the system, I saw no difference in the care I got from them.
Not quite so with the doctor. My experience with him changed dramatically.
Before EMR I would enter the exam room and sit on a chair, play Angry Birds on my iPhone and wait. My doctor would walk in, make …
Our colleague Susannah Fox of the Pew Internet & American Life Project has done much research about trends in mobile, particularly about health.
In contrast, Meeker focuses on overall big trends. She sees aspects I’ve never noticed, like what-all constitutes mobile: when I hear the term, I think handheld phones (iPhone, Droid, Blackberry), but she makes the case that mobile web access (and other wireless) is much more than phones.
As we …
How the mobile internet can transform healthcare
In February, IBM supercomputer Watson won Jeopardy! against its two human opponents, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.
Watson’s victory rests on its power in speech recognition and the ability to understand colloquial human language used in game shows like Jeopardy!. The most interesting development of this story is that after Watson’s celebrated win on national television, IBM will partner with Nuance Communications to explore how Watson could help with medical diagnosis …
Welcome our new (doctor) computer overlords
About 8 years ago or so, our practice decided to move from paper records to electronic records. The decision was helped along by the fact that we were literally running out of space for our paper charts. I had been looking at electronic medical records systems (EMRs) for years prior to this but could not justify the cost to my partners – apart from the “gee-whiz” factor – until we …
How to hire an IT director for your medical practice
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The e-reader battles are clearly heating up, with the Apple iPad, the aggressive marketing of the Kindle
be mandatory in medical school?
Joseph Kim of Mobile Health Computing argues that it certainly should be, but I think …
Apple iPad, Amazon Kindle, or the Nook for medical students
When working in the hospital, I intentionally minimize the time I spend on my iPhone because I don’t want people to assume that I’m just checking Facebook or playing Angry Birds.
Even though medical apps and the vast depths of the internet are at my fingertips, it’s just too easy to appear distracted. This represents a subtle, yet meaningful, glimpse of just one reason why I eagerly await the continued evolution …
Evolution of tablet devices for the hospital
by Mark Hendrickson
One sport that really bothers me is Major League Baseball. Why? It seems as though the hard-headed people calling the shots, and games for that matter, would rather keep their pride than make the right call.
Instant replay is no secret. It isn’t a new, untested technology—its been around since the mid 50’s and every professional sports league uses it with game-changing results, except the …
Electronic medical records and usability affect implementation
by Katherine Fullerton, MD
As a pediatric emergency physician in Northern Virginia, I have the good fortune to work with an amazing staff in a busy pediatric emergency department (ED) that sees a wide range of patients with both minor and life-threatening illnesses. Of note, we have a wonderful electronic medical record (EMR) that allows us to see past visits, lab tests, and medical problems.
My last shift was an overnight …
Insurance status when arranging follow-up from the ED
A recent post in the Wall Street Journal’s Health Blog noted that a study found electronic medical records don’t improve outpatient quality. The authors of the Archives of Internal Medicine article, Electronic Health Records and Clinical Decision Support Systems, correctly points out that we should be skeptical and “doubt [the] argument that the use of EHRs is a “magic bullet” for health care quality improvement, as some advocates imply.”
This …
Why this doctor loves electronic medical records
I exchange thoughts with healthcare IT people on a daily basis over at Twitter. So many of them seem perplexed at why we patients look at putting our medical records on the internet with trepidation.
Then along comes this video from Elizabeth Cohen at CNN. In a matter of minutes, she was able to pull up one of her CNN colleague’s medical records, his …
Health records need to be online to improve health and save money
Recently, I spent a few days in California when both my parents ended up in the hospital with different issues. They’re home, settled and doing well at this point.
Just as when I first wrote about experiencing healthcare with my family, there are important lessons to learn about this trip.
As we strive to achieve meaningful use and create health information exchange in the US, the …
Medication lists need to be shared in a meaningful way
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