Here are my posts on Informatics and EHR (electronic health records).
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Politico (and HuffPo): The Doctor of the Future (with stuff about us, and Care Redesign at UCHealth!)
Thanks to Sophie Quinton at Stateline, published in Politico 10/25, for a nice feature article about Care Redesign at UCHealth: http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/10/25/role-of-physician-in-healthcare-000554 And 10/26, in HuffPo! https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/team-approach-to-health-care-means-new-role-for-doctors_us_59f09780e4b02ace788ca8fb DENVER — When patients…
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Article: Hot Button from the AMA community: How to make EHR’s better
https://wire.ama-assn.org/practice-management/hot-button-topic-how-can-we-make-ehrs-better-more-usable Thanks to the AMA for a “Running Your Practice” community discussion on “How can we make EHR’s better and more usable?” I enjoyed being part of the panel discussion…
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How to write an Open Note for patients
Worried about how patients might be offended by physician progress notes? Use this reference tool.
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Releasing test results to ICU patients and their families? Surely a bad idea?!?
https://participatorymedicine.org/journal/evidence/case-studies/2013/06/12/divergent-care-team-opinions-about-online-release-of-test-results-to-an-icu-patient/ I’m always thankful for great colleagues who do good work. One of our former residents, Jonathan Sprague co-authored a report called “Divergent Care Team Opinions about Online Release of…
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EHR Sprint team: work hard, persevere, sometimes you get to build a dream team
Our outstanding EHR Sprint team recently got written up by our local news for the great work they do supporting UCHealth clinics using the EPIC EHR. The team is led…
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Keep your eyes on your goal, not your obstacle
Post-call Some years ago, I was a post-call intern at UC Davis Medical Center. I had been up for about 30 hours in a row, but was hoping to get…
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Patient Engagement HIT article on patient access to Medical Records
Thanks for a great write up from Patient Engagement HIT, on the important topic of the Pros and Cons of Digital Patient Health IT access. It is hard work, an…
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The CMIO role will evolve as health systems’ needs (HealthcareDIVE)
Image courtesy of HealthcareDIVE Thanks to Meg Bryant from HealthcareDIVE for a nice article about the evolving role of the CMIO. My quote: “If implementing an EHR was constructing the…
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Successful Implementation of APSO Notes Across a Major Health System (AJMC publication)
Congratulations to colleague Amber Sieja MD on her first-author publication of our work on improving EHR (electronic health record) usability by reconfiguring traditional SOAP notes into APSO notes, and then…