This post was originally published on 10/18/2012 Are doctors and hospitals killing us? Headlines are generated when a plane crashes, yet medical mistakes kill enough people to fill four jumbo jets each week. How many times have you read these provocative lines? They cropped up again recently in a Wall Street Journal article. Maybe we…
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Horses, Henry Ford, and Health Care
This post was originally published on 10/3/2012 “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Henry Ford We keep reading about the need for more physicians, and other health care providers, to care for the expected onslaught of newly insured expected from the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. There…
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“Somewhere, over the rainbow…”
“Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high…” sang Dorothy Gale after falling in the hog pen and being scolded by Auntie Em. More on that later. Speaking of over the rainbow, imagine the possibilities if Health Information Exchange (HIE) data could be mined statewide or nationally. Imagine for a moment the clinical questions that could…
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“To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.” Quote by – Plutarch
This post was originally published on 4/25/2012 Implementing an EMR is not supposed to be easy, but after you implement and learn, your clinical life is supposed to be easier. At least that’s the hope. I’ve talked to several providers who have found, and continue to find after a long time, that documentation is harder,…
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