If you are a physician unhappy with your current EHR system (surveys suggest 2 out of 3 are), and you do have the ability to switch, this article is for you. Our COVID-19 pandemic may place you in a bad financial time for this, but it’s also plac…
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3 steps to changing your EHR system
If you are a physician unhappy with your current EHR system (surveys suggest 2 out of 3 are), and you do have the ability to switch, this article is for you. Our COVID-19 pandemic may place you in a bad financial time for this, but it’s also plac…
Portuguese Tech Entrepreneurs Join Forces To Create Websites And Apps That Help In The Fight Against The Coronavirus
In mid-March, 60 Portuguese tech entrepreneurs started Tech4Covid19, a movement that has launched several public service apps and websites which help people in the country overcome the threats and challenges posed by the virus. Today, they are over 540…
How to liberate doctors from EMRs
We talk a lot in critical care medicine about liberating patients from ventilators. Vents are getting a lot of deserved attention for saving lives in the COVID-19 era. But the machine has downsides that get worse the longer the patient needs it. Becaus…
Coronavirus Treatments – If More Women Are On The Board, It’s Likely Safer, New Study Finds
According to the study, called “The Influence of Female Directors on Product Recall Decisions,” highly-defective medical products and treatments are recalled 28 days faster – 35% faster – when more than one woman is on the board of directors, compared …
Meet The Nigerian Entrepreneurs Who Just Raised $10 Million To Transform Africa’s Healthcare
Helium Health, cofounded by Nigerian entrepreneurs and 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees Adegoke Olubusi, Tito Ovia, and Dimeji Sofowora, announced today that it has raised $10 million in Series A round, led by Global Ventures and Asia Africa Investment…
How cell phones can help lead us out of the COVID-19 pandemic
As most of America approaches the one-month mark since shelter-in-place orders began, there is increasing talk of “plateauing” and debate of strategies for resuming “normal” life. Unfortunately, we continue to find ourselves without a clear path out of…
Telehealth: Get ready for big changes in health care
The year 2020 might bear witness to a significant shift in control of health care from the providers, insurers, and the government to actual health care consumers. First, it was the politicians, then the tech conferences and promises of 5G, and now glo…
IT deficits are eating hospital profits. CEOs need to wake up.
I work for a hospital network with the world’s slowest computers. I timed it: Last shift, it took me fifteen minutes to log on. The first computer obtained didn’t function at all. It had been worked on the day before by information techno…
Sharing medical records won’t work
A major goal of MIPS is to increase the sharing of information between providers and eliminate so-called data silos. Central to this goal is the implementation of fast health care interoperability resources (FHIR). FHIR allows one EHR to directly query…
