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July 19, 2024 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
In 2019, physician burnout was actually gradually improving. Health care stakeholders were talking about burnout openly and constructively. Life was not perfect for physicians, but the indicators were moving in […]
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June 5, 2024 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
Life is all about expectations. Setting them. Meeting them. Acknowledging them. This has proven key in the health care technology space, which is now being upended by the entry of […]
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Dec. 18, 2023 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
Dr. David Butler received his first electronic in-basket message from a patient in 2005. It came as a surprise at the time. This was well before the beginning of what […]
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Nov. 10, 2023 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
Explore the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in alleviating administrative burdens and addressing clinician burnout, as well as the concept of ambient documentation in health care, in a Becker’s Healthcare […]
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Aug. 23, 2023 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
The release of ChatGPT has ignited dueling flames of excitement and concern regarding the potential of artificial intelligence (AI). Will AI end humanity, or is it going to save the […]
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Aug. 14, 2023 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
In the U.S. health care system, we now have many more surgical procedures being performed in the outpatient setting than even a decade ago. The push to migrate certain procedures […]
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July 11, 2023 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
Technology and the mounting artificial intelligence (AI) explosion are going to automate a long list of tasks, freeing up time for physicians. The big question then is what should physicians […]
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April 11, 2023 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
The burnout epidemic among health workers has become front-page news. It took a while, but here we are speaking openly about a problem that has drained our health care workforce […]
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Feb. 17, 2023 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
The health innovation world has started the year off with a bang. A new year means new technologies and, in this macroeconomic environment, new deals, new acquisitions, consolidations, and other […]
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Feb. 6, 2023 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP, Kelli Christman
I sat down with 3M Health Information Systems Chief Medical Officer of Clinician Solutions Dr. Travis Bias to discuss what capture to code really means and how technology should help […]
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Jan. 30, 2023 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
How do physicians find the information they need to make decisions in the electronic health record (EHR)? How does the EHR organize information – narrative and more discrete data elements […]
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Jan. 11, 2023 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
Kicking off a new year provides the opportunity to take stock of our current station. The health care system, rather than returning to our pre-pandemic state after almost three years […]
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Sept. 26, 2022 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
As health care technology and clinical documentation requirements become more complex, health systems must find ways to enable physicians to maintain a high level of quality in their documentation, while […]
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Aug. 24, 2022 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
Leaders of all health care organizations consistently have one thing at the top of their minds: health workforce retention and burnout. A recent McKinsey report warns that by 2025 the […]
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Aug. 8, 2022 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
Can you share the most interesting or most exciting story that has happened to you since you began at your company? One of my favorite things to do is to […]
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July 20, 2022 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
In February 2020, less than one percent of all patient-physician visits were conducted via telemedicine. Within about six weeks, 32 percent thanks to the initial COVID-19 pandemic stay-at-home orders. Health […]
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June 1, 2022 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
Three years after my family medicine residency, I was burned out. I didn’t admit to that label at the time, but I wasn’t sleeping well and even had occasional palpitations. […]
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May 12, 2022 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
It is an honor to co-host the Inside Angle podcast alongside Dr. Melissa Clarke. In our first episode, we introduced ourselves to the Inside Angle community. And now, it is […]
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April 21, 2022 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP, Melissa Clarke, MD
We’re so excited to welcome our new Inside Angle podcast hosts! Dr. Melissa Clarke is the senior medical director for health care transformation and health equity, and Dr. Travis Bias […]
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Jan. 24, 2022 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
I had the opportunity to talk with Peter Birch of Talking HealthTech about all things clinician burnout. What causes it? How do we talk about it? What is the role […]
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Dec. 8, 2021 / By Keri Hunsaker, Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
I sat down with Dr. Travis Bias, family medicine physician and medical director of clinician solutions at 3M Health Information Systems, to discuss his recent article tackling physician burnout, and […]
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Aug. 9, 2021 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
A recent Health Affairs study of “zero burnout” primary care practices found that satisfaction with the electronic health record (EHR) was not a determinant of clinician burnout level. This is […]
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May 28, 2021 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
“Almost any time we allow the life support systems of our planet or society to be commodified, it drives other breakdowns.” – Tristan Harris There is a tremendous amount of […]
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April 19, 2021 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
When I was a young primary care physician, all I wanted was more time to spend with my patients. Each day felt rushed, prodded by the fee-for-service system that incentivized […]
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March 15, 2021 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
The central mission of many health start-ups is explicit: to “disrupt” the status quo in the U.S. health care system. But when disruptions hijack the attention of health workers, it […]
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Feb. 24, 2021 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
The value of community health workers (CHWs) is finally being recognized here in the U.S. This cadre works to approximate and glue together the pieces of our fragmented health care […]
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Jan. 4, 2021 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
Fragmented systems lead to fragmented pandemic responses. Or that’s what I took from this Lancet piece published recently. The opportunities to improve the U.S. public health and health care systems […]
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Sept. 14, 2020 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed and magnified some nonsensical elements that drive health care delivery in the U.S. One of the most glaring is the method by which primary care […]
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Jan. 29, 2020 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
The topic of burnout is all the rage lately. Whole conferences are designed to combat it and it is at the center of debates among healthcare delivery leaders nationwide. Its […]
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July 3, 2019 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
A recent Politico piece on the implementation of Epic in Denmark highlighted some key areas where the American-grown electronic health record (EHR) was simply “lost in translation” in the Scandinavian […]
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May 1, 2019 / By Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP
A culture of patient safety built over the past twenty years is encountering roadblocks. Policies and recent events that defy both research and initiatives geared towards strengthening healthcare safety, whether […]