

Why Do Certain Electronic Health Record Installations Fail?
The article Denver Health CIO, COO quit, blame pricey Epic EHR installation, says Denver Health Medical Center (where Dr Kamens and I...


Meaningful Use?? Rise of the “Best of Breed”??
Is the “Meaningful Use” financial incentive actually going to end? According to article CMS Promises Meaningful Use Replacement This Year...


Disposition Driven Test Ordering/A Change in Paradigm
The most common complaints about Emergency Care is cost and inappropriate utilization. The Sensible Test Ordering Practice in an...


Being Honest about Electronic Health Record Costs
In the article Hospitals face budget woes with switch to electronic records, Brigham and Women’s, one of the most famous and profitable...


Real-Time Artificial Intelligence Utility
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is defined by Wikipedia as intelligence exhibited by machines or software. In the article 10 Ways Artificial...


Preserving the Mental and Physical Health of the “Graveyard Workers”
In the article 8 Ways Working the Night Shift Hurts Your Health, authors suggest that working night shifts can lead to 1. Sleep disorders...


Malpractice Worries Enter a New Level of Sophistication and Complexity
Malpractice claims are usually rooted in poor communication, failure to diagnose, bad outcomes, and poor interpersonal relationships....


The Time of the Highest Risk in Emergency Medicine
Medical care has always claimed that certain timeframes as critical to life and limb. Examples are 1) The “Golden Hour of Trauma,” 2) 90...


The Coming Electronic Medical Records "ARMS RACE" to Support Value Based Care
With the advent of value-based care, the EHRs aren’t enough for value-based care blog is a very succinct analysis of the need for radical...


ICD-10: The Elephant in the Room
While it is most likely that physicians will not be entering their own codes on a regular basis, some will do so, either by requirement...













