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 […]

AI models for COVID-19 I was skimming through MIT Technology Review and I saw one article that stopped me cold. It proclaimed that hundreds of AI models were developed to […]

Everyone deserves the opportunity to live a long, healthy and rewarding life. However, we know that older adults of color disproportionally experience inequities in the health care system. Disrupt Disparities, an […]

Future of health care I listened with fascination to Dr. Gordon Moore’s interview with Nicholas Webb, CEO of LeaderLogic, last week on the 3M Inside Angle podcast. Webb’s views on […]

Over the past 40 years or so, the technology used to interact with medical records has changed dramatically. First there was paper. Then electronic health records (EHRs) came along, offering—among […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened our awareness of the disparities in health equity: accessibility to health care facilities; individual ability and awareness to attend to health care management; support systems […]

Like most people (I hope), I can get caught up in the details of my work and life to the point that I’m in back-to-back meetings, dashing from one task […]

Best selling author, inventor and technologist Nick Webb describes the trends he sees that are disrupting the current state of health care. He says our previous changes have been too […]

SCOTUS ruling The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) recently dealt a blow to the American Hospital Association (AHA). What was the bone of contention? The AHA contended that […]

I sat down with the 3M Health Information Systems Division President Garri Garrison to talk about 3M CES, HIMSS and getting back to meeting in person. The highly anticipated 3M […]

Insurance protects against losses from unexpected events. Health insurance that protects against the unlikely risk of major surgery or hospitalization makes sense, since the financial impact of a major medical […]

As Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations report chronic disease conditions using ICD-10-CM encounter data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for use in the hierarchical condition category (HCC) […]