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Contributing Writer · February 11, 2011
Clinical Decision Support: What It Is and how to use It
Clinical Decision Support (CDS) is an important element in improving health care delivery. Given the dramatic variation in health care costs from one locale to another (the Dartmouth Atlas experience), prompting rank-and-file physicians with standard-of-care guidelines (one way of implementing CDS), at the point of... Continue
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Contributing Writer · February 9, 2011
The 25 most common medical diagnoses
Check out the 25 most common ICD-10 diagnoses in 2016. Continue
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Contributing Writer · January 29, 2011
Being Sick in a Digital Age: EMRs,Telemedicine and Virtual Consultations
Last week, I was ill. I was coughing, sweating, aching, spinning, you name it. With a whole mess of sickness flowing through my immune system, I had little to no energy left to be my ol’ self. I haven’t been this sick in a long... Continue
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Contributing Writer · January 26, 2011
EMRs and Health Data: Reporting the Numbers
Thanks to some connections at Microsoft I was made aware of some very interesting data that was published on the Windows Azure Data Marketplace by Practice Fusion – de-identified medical records of 5,000 patients. Of course, I had to take a look. What I found... Continue
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Contributing Writer · January 11, 2011
Can we have high-tech, high-touch health care?
Does the use of Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems get in the way of doctor-patient interaction? Does it make the doctor-visit experience colder and more distanced – more dehumanized? Is there more interaction with the tools, at the expense of the emotional connection that comes... Continue