Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The truth is that an EHR by definition serves multiple masters, satisfying some more than others. It can serve every user from the patient to the receptionist to nurses, doctors, counselors, billers, and the CFO. For many clinicians, EHRs have actually been a disservice, a major factor in burnout. It still holds true.

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Redox

DECEMBER 4, 2020

As an aside, I definitely enjoyed Pfizer’s bump from 90% to 95% efficacy after Moderna’s announcement …yay for capitalism? Functionally, this type of tool is called an immunization registry , and, luckily for us, it has existed for decades. I don’t think we need to spill any more ink on that topic, but I, for one, am pumped.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

By focusing on medical definitions of success (generally expressed as HEDIS measures), the program medicalized social problems and failed to explicitly recognize the significant role that social determinants play in the health of our communities. Did this happen everywhere? This was a minority of PPS. But it happened.

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