Healthcare IT Archives

Build a Care Team

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Dec 7, 2016 | Healthcare IT

With healthcare complexity increasing daily, traditional models of delivering care fail to offer a viable framework capable of delivering high quality care at a reasonable cost. The rapid and ever-changing medical knowledge makes It impossible for any healthcare...

Digital Documentation: More or Less

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Nov 15, 2016 | Healthcare IT

Remember the blue book? Starting as early as junior high school, teachers would hand out that pale blue 8” x 8” booklet, giving each student 50 minutes to handwrite everything they knew about a particular subject. Urban legend suggested teachers issued grades based on...

Why Unified Notes Can Lessen Documentation Time

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Sep 23, 2016 | Healthcare IT

In 2009, an article in Methods of Information Medicine reported that physicians spend 26.6 percent of their time documenting care and 27.5 percent of their time in direct patient care. In their conclusion, the authors wrote, “Computer-based tools and, in some areas,...

Why Things Matter

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | May 20, 2016 | Analytics, Cybersecurity, Healthcare IT

Compared to automobiles made just a few years ago, new ones provide an amazing driving experience. Expanding beyond the CD changer and iPod® dongle, automobiles now integrate our smartphones and use voice recognition technology, allowing drivers to keep their hands on...

Putting Interoperability on FHIR

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Jan 27, 2016 | Healthcare IT

The release of the Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) Connecting Health and Care for the Nation marks a dramatic shift from focus on Meaningful Use to incenting all stakeholders to fix our interoperability problem. While the HITECH act moved the nation’s...

Living and Working in Two Worlds

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Oct 5, 2015 | Healthcare IT

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell offered to sell his patent for the telephone to Western Union for $100,000. After careful consideration the company rejected Bell’s offer. They replied that they could see no good reason why people would want to speak to each other...