Inpatient Guide for Outpatient Docs: Table of Contents Covid-19 threatens to hospitalize an exponentially increasing number of patients in the coming weeks. In addition to building more physical space and finding more equipment, what happens when we run out of hospitalists to manage their care? What if, instead of our usual 10 teams of hospitalists, … Continue reading EHR v Covid-19. Prepping for the Surge: Inpatient Guide for Outpatient Doctors – Guest Blog
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COVID Incident Command: a day-in-the-life
The author, defended by his creature creations. A recapitulation of a series of tweets about my recent experience at the UCHealth’s command center. I rotate the responsibility for the physician support position with about a half-dozen other docs. The command center has been up for almost 3 weeks now. 1/ A day @uchealth Incident Command … Continue reading COVID Incident Command: a day-in-the-life
Innovation partnerships at UCHealth (Healthfinch)
Tracy Sawyer, RN Our UCHealth Care Innovation Center is dedicated to implementing partnerships with companies that improve and simplify our work. Our most recent example is our partnership with Healthfinch to improve prescription renewals, by assessing the data in the electronic health record, presenting it to nurses and pharmacists on a centralized prescription renewal team … Continue reading Innovation partnerships at UCHealth (Healthfinch)
Showing Rx Co-Pay Cost at time of Prescribing, in the EHR (info transparency!)
Sometimes you work hard, and cool things happen. UCHealth is partnering with RxRevu, makers of SwiftRx, an EHR-embedded tool that shows prescribing doctors the co-pay cost of patient medications AT THE TIME OF PRESCRIBING! We believe we're one of the first in the country to do this successfully. Yes, at the time of prescribing. NOT … Continue reading Showing Rx Co-Pay Cost at time of Prescribing, in the EHR (info transparency!)
EHR Sprint Optimization Executive Summary – using Stories, Images AND Data to change minds
Many of you know that in my role as CMIO at UCHealth, I've stepped in my share of potholes. My Failure Resume is replete with examples (eg: my 16 year journey to implementing Open Notes). Having studied the Open Notes phenomenon back in 2000 and published in 2003, it was a big disappointment when, after … Continue reading EHR Sprint Optimization Executive Summary – using Stories, Images AND Data to change minds
I Can See Clearly That My Sprain is Gone – Ukulele parody (and an XGM talk)
Author along with co-conspirator Peter Sachs MD. Neither can sing. We (Dr. Peter Sachs, Vice Chair of Radiology at UCHealth, and I) recently had the pleasure of presenting our recent quality improvement work at Epic's XGM (eXpert's Group Meeting) in Verona, WI this week. In brief, we created and turned on the ability for patients … Continue reading I Can See Clearly That My Sprain is Gone – Ukulele parody (and an XGM talk)
What is a Yottabyte, and How Do You Treat It? (a talk)
https://youtu.be/OReBJIbYAfU I gave a keynote speech late last year at Technology Awareness Day, hosted by the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus about Big Data, Tech acceleration, and Artificial Intelligence, as applied to healthcare. I enjoy making my colleagues uncomfortable. How long will doctors have jobs? Will the AI eliminate internal medicine doctors? If Watson … Continue reading What is a Yottabyte, and How Do You Treat It? (a talk)
Steven Strogatz (NYTimes) on a future for AI via AlphaZero
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/science/chess-artificial-intelligence.html AlphaZero is now the undisputed champion of Go and now of chess. It recently battled Stockfish, the former chess computer heavyweight, and in that series of 100 matches, it won 28, drew 72, AND LOST NONE. Lets hear that again. AlphaZero, the deep learning computer originally designed to play and beat human players at … Continue reading Steven Strogatz (NYTimes) on a future for AI via AlphaZero
Video: Dr. Sieja discusses EHR Optimization Sprints
https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/cms/10.1016/j.mayocp.2018.08.036/attachment/550f6a58-9ea6-4efe-9432-bb5c53fecaeb/mmc2.mp4 Congratulations to Dr. Sieja and team for publication of UCHealths' experience regarding EHR Optimization Sprints. You can do it too! Read about our published experience at Mayo Clinic Proceedings. https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(18)30788-2/fulltext#appsec1 There are several online supplements: additional specifics about how we conducted the program (30-60-90 day planning meetings, agendas for the 2 weeks of activity, … Continue reading Video: Dr. Sieja discusses EHR Optimization Sprints
How Do You Balance Patient Care and Research with Online Patients? Our Proposed Protocol
Flask from nounproject.com What would you do with the following research requests? The CEO of the health system would like for all patients using the EHR patient portal to be asked to sign a consent form to participate in our system-wide strategic BioBank. In this strategic project, we aim to capture an "extra tube of … Continue reading How Do You Balance Patient Care and Research with Online Patients? Our Proposed Protocol