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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]