Are EHRs being used to stifle physicians?
Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR
“Many physicians have been reluctant to embrace electronic health record systems, with concerns about their costs, usability and impact on workflow.
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The Future of mHealth: Doctors Use Gadgets to Improve Healthcare
Forbes
“Mobile devices are proving instrumental for a growing number of healthcare professionals. Smartphones and tablets are progressing beyond ways for doctors and nurses to check in during a busy day, and becoming part of the very fabric of healthcare delivery.
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iPads and health care – health IT managers slow down physicians’ clinical adoption
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“Doctors are using iPads in huge numbers for personal life project management. 80% of doctors are excited about using them in clinical practice. But when it comes to clinical applications, don’t confuse physicians’ desire for mobility with their current use of iPads in everyday practice.
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Why EMR is a dirty word to many doctors
Adam Sharp, KevinMD
“Don’t get me wrong, EMRs (electronic medical records) are inevitable. Over the long-run they are almost certainly good for physicians, patients and the healthcare industry.
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Physicians: iPad Not Ready For Clinical Use
Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“Eighty percent of physicians in a recent survey said they believe that the Apple iPad has an “exciting future in healthcare”–but they doubt it is ready for clinical use.
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Some Downsides of Social Media for Doctors
Wes, MedPage Today
“With the preponderance of optimistic takes on physicians participating (some even suggesting we have an obligation to participate) in various forms of social media through blogging, Twitter-ing, and Facebook-ing, perhaps one of us should take a moment to acknowledge that there are some downsides to this practice for doctors and nurses.
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Do Your Doctors Use EHRs?
Elinore Boeke, HIMSS News
“I recently took my youngest in for a first visit with the new practice, for his 5-year check up. I brought copies of Alex’s immunization and other records from his previous pediatrician, and I traded my insurance card for the familiar clipboard and pages of additional forms to fill out in the waiting room.
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Docs urged to use caution when building social media profiles
Dan Bowman, FierceHealthIT
“Despite a rise in the number of healthcare professionals migrating online to build a following on blogs and on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, dangers persist, as outlined in a recent article published in the British Medical Journal.
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How much of a social media profile can doctors have?
McCartney M. BMJ, 344
Professionalism and social media can be an uneasy mix. In the police force, Freedom of Information data have shown that, in the past four years, two officers have been sacked, seven resigned, and over 150 been disciplined for placing “inappropriate” photographs or comments online. Nurses have been sacked after making comments about patients and colleagues online, posting photographs of themselves exposing their breasts while in uniform, and putting pictures of patients online.
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Mobile tools help physicians, patients track medication adherence
Eric Wicklund, mHIMSS
“One of the critical challenges to the successful adoption of patient-centered healthcare is ensuring that the patient adheres to his or her medication requirements. This means taking the right mediation in the right dose at the right time, with the right outcomes.
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Owning Up to Health IT Challenges
John Pulley, NextGov
“Physicians who have an ownership stake in a medical practice are more likely than other doctors to rate EHR implementation as difficult.
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Small physician practices are targets of hackers, too
Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“While data security breaches at big healthcare organizations capture most of the media attention, small medical practices are actually more vulnerable to data losses and theft, according to a Kroll Fraud Solutions report cited in American Medical News.
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American Docs Question Health IT’s Benefits
Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“U.S. physicians are less likely than doctors in other countries to think that healthcare IT can improve diagnostic decisions, according to a survey of 3,700 doctors in eight countries.
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Survey: Physician owners more likely to find EHR implementation difficult
Luke Gale, CMIO
“Physicians with an ownership stake in their practice were more likely than other physicians to think of EHR implementation as difficult or very difficult according to the results of pre- and post-implementation surveys of physicians published Jan. 16 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
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Twitter Is my third office location
Bobby Ghaheri, KevinMD
“The physician’s decision to first dive into social media can be stress-inducing. Issues of time management, maintaining professionalism, and determining a return on the personal investment can limit our use of the various platforms.
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Robot, MD: Will machines replace doctors?
Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“Earlier this year a series of articles in Slate by Farhad Manjoo raised some eyebrows – and perhaps quickened some heartbeats. It was titled “Will robots steal your job?” Frighteningly, for some medical professionals the answer was in the affirmative.
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Motivate physicians through technology
Juan J. Reyes, KevinMD
“Motivating others is always difficult task. But according to Dan Heath, author of Made to Stick, all employers need to do to effectively motivate employees is get out of the basement – Maslow’s basement that is.
According to Abraham Maslow, human needs are distributed in a hierarchical structure with the most basic needs, which he calls deficiency needs, stacked at the bottom.
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Do We Need Doctors Or Algorithms?
Vinod Khosla, The Crunch
“I was asked about a year ago at a talk about energy what I was doing about the other large social problems, namely health care and education. Surprised, I flippantly responded that the best solution was to get rid of doctors and teachers and let your computers do the work, 24/7 and with consistent quality.
Later, I got to cogitating about what I had said and why, and how embarrassingly wrong that might be. But the more I think about it the more I feel my gut reaction was probably right.
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What will it take for physicians to adopt mHealth?
David Lee Scher, mHIMSS
“Medicine as an establishment is known to adopt significant changes slowly, whether it relates to practice itself, new technologies or other practice tools or the emergence and acceptance of new specialties. This may be due to divergence of clinical opinions, economic considerations or an inherent skepticism of physicians.
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US doctors less sanguine about the benefits of health IT
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“To doctors working in eight countries around the globe, the biggest benefit of health IT is better access to quality data for clinical access, followed by reducing medical errors, improving coordination of care across care settings, and improving cross-organizational workflow.
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