Tools, tactics, and strategies that influence physician leadership.
A pilot study looks at obstacles to enhancing quality in the era of the electronic health records. EHRs have had many unintended consequences, incl...
Physicians and their staffs don’t always know what their responsibilities are, based on a study of 83 leading hospitals from Yale University.
EMR systems flash so many alerts — more than 100 a day, by one estimate — that we can become numb to them. It’s time for sanity, backed by science,...
Doctors can use blogs and other digital outlets to educate patients, build online reputations and, perhaps most importantly, have an outlet for the...
Got dozens (or even thousands) of health care employees to coordinate? An online environment can be a helpful tool.
The approach taps data mining, stat modeling and machine learning to transform data into predictions. It’s changing medicine, and it’s a force phys...
The “internet of things” is changing medicine by introducing remote capabilities that only recently required an office visit and extensive machiner...
There is growing evidence virtual and augmented realities, still in a nascent stage, are producing positive results and expanded opportunities in h...
Health care organizations must consider relevant structure, process and outcome measures − and not just CMS ratings or geography − before selecting...
More than simply building a prototype and attempting to sell it, this complicated process requires a deep understanding of engineering, business, l...
Respondents say electronic health records should be more user-friendly, designed with patients in mind.
It’s the enemy within. More than half of all cyberthreats are self-inflicted, but there are areas physician leaders can target to slow the trend.
