FierceHealthIT
(February 3, 2012)
The intrepid hospital and physician office pioneers leading the charge toward accountable care organizations have learned some key lessons about IT -- its role, its limitations and its challenges.
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Wired Magazine
(January 31, 2012)
Medicine has certainly progressed in the past 50 years, but the day when tricorders diagnose every ailment instantly and treatments are tailored to our DNA seems as far off as ever. Eric Topol, MD is trying to bridge that gap. In his new book, The Creative Destruction of Medicine, Topol—the cardiologist and chief academic officer at Scripps Health—calls on patients to demand true digital medicine now. We talked to him about genetics, gadgets, and his vision of a Khan Academy for doctors.
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The Wall Street Journal
(January 23, 2012)
Email has been so commonplace for so long that some people consider it nearly obsolete. But in the health care profession, its use for communications between doctors and their patients is still controversial. Opponents worry that doctors can't read patients by reading their emails. Important signals can be missed, they say, when doctors can't see their patients' facial expressions, hear the tone of their voices or take note of their body language, and care can suffer as a result. Others say email is a valuable tool in building a relationship between doctor and patient. It makes doctors more accessible, they say, and allows a more thorough exchange of information than the traditional office visits and phone calls.
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amednews.com, an online publication of the American Medical Association
(January 16, 2012)
At least one survey indicates that physicians' personal embrace of tablet computers is translating into a professional embrace -- one that could put small offices at the forefront in the latest wave of health information technology. A survey by the market research firm NPD Group found that 76% of small to medium-sized physician and dental practices said they plan to buy tablets in the next 12 months and spend an average of $6,800.
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Healthcare IT News
(December 29, 2011)
"Due to the new intricacies of organizational connections between different providers, standardization of workflows on existing EHRs won’t really be possible," says software IT analyst and author, Shahid Shah. "Most EHRs are not up to the task of handling the complexities of newly shared accountability and what I call ‘patient team’ business models, so we need EHRs to become more social, more collaborative, and far more integrated than they are now. EHRs need to grow up from the adolescence of basic electronic typewriters and chart storage systems to mature real-time care coordination and collaboration platforms.”
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