EMR Archives

From Snow to Achuff: Using Analytics to Drive Clinical Change

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Feb 26, 2020 | Analytics

John Snow, the English physician who removed the handle from the Broad Street pump and halted the 1854 London cholera epidemic, is considered one of the founders of modern epidemiology. His work led to fundamental changes in the water and waste system of London and...

A Health IT Soothsayer

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Nov 15, 2018 | Archives

One of the best parts about predicting the future is how rarely the soothsayer is held accountable. The famous Michel de Nostredame, better known as Nostradamus, is popularly credited with predicting the rise of Hitler in Germany, the attacks of 9/11, and climate...

Musings on Patient Safety, Processes, and HIT

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Aug 12, 2018 | Healthcare Policy

While working on a consulting project in Chile I connected with representatives from the Universidad Andres Bello who requested an interview to discuss my perspectives on patient safety and the role of processes and technology in delivering safe care. Here are...

Analytics: Act Like an EIS Officer

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Apr 30, 2018 | Analytics

If you lived in Milwaukee in early April 1993, you would have found an unusual sight in many of the pharmacies around town. Row after row of anti-diarrheal mediations were missing from shelves, bought up in a frenzy by citizens suffering from acute abdominal pain,...

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...