Chaiken Archives

EMRs: Are We There Yet?

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Mar 13, 2018 | Archives

Our unfinished journey is more than half a century old. While rock’n’roll came of age and hippies invaded San Francisco, a small hospital in Mountain View, CA, in the heart of what was to become Silicon Valley, teamed up with the Lockheed Corporation and began the...

Clinical Trials, Genetic Testing, and Personalized Medicine

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Oct 6, 2017 | Analytics, Healthcare Policy

As medicine marches toward its embrace of personalized medicine and immunotherapy, researchers struggle to obtain meaningful discoveries that can be applied to the ever-expanding number of patient cohorts. The growth in the understanding and use of genetic testing...

Clinical Care, HIT, and Mike Trout

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Aug 13, 2017 | Analytics

With men on second and third, two outs in the top of the ninth inning of game 7 of the 2017 World Series, Mike Trout of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, arguably the best hitter in Major League baseball, walks to the plate at Citi Field to face Addison Reed, the...

Why HIT Tools Can Help Organizations Navigate the Challenges of Growth

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Apr 14, 2017 | Analytics

With the big bang of electronic medical record installations mostly over, many in the industry wonder what comes next. Optimization is at the top of most providers’ lists, seeking to better use EMRs to achieve clinical and financial outcomes. However, other...

Repeal and Replace: It’s Complicated

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Apr 7, 2017 | Archives

This past February, the President announced that the delivery of healthcare to America’s 300 million residents embraced more complexity than he previously realized. Only a few days before, at the annual HIMSS conference in Orlando, former Speaker of the House John...