Here are my posts on Informatics and EHR (electronic health records).
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The Fix for Automation Complacency: The AI Greek Chorus
AI tools have arrived in healthcare, On the surface, this sounds amazing. Who doesn’t want a never-tired, smart medical student at your elbow summarizing, searching, transcribing at your request? How…
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Should Surgeons Embrace the EHR (secret answer: yes!). JAMA Surgery editorial by Yi, Tevis, Lin
Drs. Tevis and Yi, both surgeon informaticists, make the case for more surgeons to get involved in the innovation, design and use of electronic health records to make surgery better.…
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RESCUE October: Colorado’s regional Epic UGM: success!
What did you miss at the Colorado Regional EHR Seminars? Read on! #epic #RESCUEoctober @uchealth #informaticsiscool
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How to Survive an EHR Go-Live? Here are 2 examples…
An EHR Go-live is a magnifying glass that brings time-pressure, financial pressure, and strong emotion to hundreds to thousands of individual participants. How do you Survive a Go Live?
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Go Slow to Go Fast, or Human Autonomy vs Bot Autonomy
University of Colorado’s General Internal Medicine leaders have decided to block one appointment per half day clinic for all physicians and APP’s. Find out what happened!
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In a complex environment, a one-dimensional decision is no decision at all.
In the world of medication alerts, how will you make progress on reducing the burden while maintaining safety and keeping everyone happy? Is it even possible?
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I failed to get committee approval. What am I doing wrong?
Start with Why. Bring your Army. Mock it Up. Use these techniques. Make “doing the right thing” easy.
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A Systematic Approach to Reducing EHR Inbox Burden (Steps Forward AMA)
Don’t you wish there were a step-by-step guide to fixing that darn Inbasket problem for your burned out EHR colleagues and for yourself? Surprise! Here you go. #AMAstepsforward
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“Med Too Soon” a medication dispensing alert, is both terrible and indispensable
Our EMO (electronic medication optimization) committee is dedicated to eliminating alerts that have high “override” rates. Any alert with an override rate more than 90% means that most clinicians seeing…
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The Importance of Epic Sprints and other grand gestures (CT Lin on the Medicine Cabinet podcast)
Dr. Liz Harry and I have a chat about using informatics to implement “grand gestures” and “blowing up” existing habits/systems to return joy to the workplace.