Opinion
Medical technology should keep patient in mind
While the stethoscope has literally distanced us from patients, it is such an important tool that we no longer think about this distancing.
Opinion
Medication adherence challenges and helpers
Thankfully, there are tools designed to help remind patients of what they need to take and when.
Opinion
Technology and the evolution of medical knowledge: What’s happening in the background
An important development is an increasing recognition that randomized trials have one nagging but critical limitation – generalizability.
Opinion
Who is in charge here?
Smartphone apps can add twists to diagnoses.
Opinion
Martin Buber, deep learning, and the still soft voice beyond the screen
While some older physicians have expressed a yearning for the comfort of paper charts, most of us have come to embrace the benefits of the...
Opinion
Real-world data, machine learning, and the reemergence of humanism
Innovators are beginning to explore how machine learning (used by Amazon and Google) might be used to improve the care of patients.
News
What is an old doctor to do?
Voice recognition software may ease the stress of EHR duties for physicians who never trained in typing.
Opinion
Preventive health: Getting rid of the middleman (uh-oh, that’s us!)
Preventive health is, frankly, really difficult.
Opinion
The Inflection Point
The future belongs to the nimble.
News
Our new year’s resolutions
Resolve to improve your use of electronic health records to make your life easier in the coming year.
Article
Here on Earth
Technologic solutions to EHR problems develop in advance of our full understanding of what the solution needs to be: Case in point is the overlap...
Article
EHR Report: Take your medicine!
Do new smartphone apps help patients take the medications that physicians so carefully prescribe?
News
Aunt Tillie and electronic health records
To provide excellent medical care requires that clinicians make choices about what should be addressed at any given visit and that our charts and...
