This is my last blog for 2021, so I thought it would be appropriate to pause a beat and look back. What an eventful, tumultuous year. Here, I hope to […]

Last year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) jointly finalized a proposal to make the April 1 update of ICD-10-CM/PCS […]

Ever been caught off guard hearing about UFO sightings because the physics makes no sense? The Pentagon calls UFOs by a different name: UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena). I was surprised […]

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 […]

In this blog, I want to highlight one theme that I found interesting from the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021), one that explores the […]

As we head into 2022, we want to take the time to thank you, our loyal 3M HIS Inside Angle readers, for your continued interest in and engagement with the […]

The drug ivermectin became a household name during the pandemic when some falsely believed it could prevent or treat COVID-19. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), current data […]

I sat down with the 3M Health Information Systems VP of Clinician Solutions (M*Modal) Joe Stadther to talk about physician burnout, how technology can help and some trends to be […]

A neighbor of mine is undergoing her third round of chemotherapy this week. As we head into the end of the year, she was relieved that she had already passed […]

Continuing the discussion of my observations from last week, here are a few highlights from various sessions conducted during the 2021 AMIA National Symposium. The sessions can be grouped under […]

Gestalt is defined as: “Something that is made of many parts and yet is somehow more than or different from the combination of its parts.”  Long ago, I remember attempting […]

This week and next, I will be summarizing my observations from virtually attending the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium 2021. I personally have a long history with AMIA. […]