A Change is Gonna Come
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” —Henry Ford
This was not the post I was going to write. This was supposed to be a story about some tenacious computer programmers working at the VA in the 80’s who decided to create a system which became one of the first EHR’s, and is still considered one of the most user friendly systems. They did this by eliminating layers . . .
Electronic Health Records
One step forward, two steps back?
Growing up in rural South Alabama, the nearest doctor was about 20 miles away in a little town called Frisco City. His name was Dr B. L. Hanks, and he received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. I’m told he made house calls in his younger years, but when I knew him he could barely walk. He would shuffle into . . .
Digital Healthcare Trends: An Introduction
We are in the digital era of healthcare. Smart phones, smart watches – even smart glucose monitors – collect data about our health that is fed into electronic health records (EHR’s), which, as of 2017, are used by 99% of large hospitals in the US . The information from these EHR’s is increasingly . . .
