While many physicians report frustration with EHRs, Michael Pfeffer, MD, took an interest in the technology — a decision that led him down a new career path. After earning his medical
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Becker’s Health IT & CIO Review – Patients push for transparency: OpenNotes at Northwest Permanente
The patient-physician relationship has long been uni-directional: The clinician determines a diagnosis and treatment plan, and the patient follows along, taking the clinician’s word at face value. But now, patients have developed the autonomy and desire to be active participants and decision-makers when it comes to their care. This transition became fairly evident to Kaiser…
Life as a Healthcare CIO: Wikipedia and Facebook for Clinical Documentation
Over the past several years I’ve written about the inadequate state of clinical documentation, which is largely unchanged since the days of Osler, (except for a bit more structure introduced by Larry Weed in the 1970s) and was created for billing/legal purposes not for care coordination. One of the most frequent complaints in my email…
