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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,...

Personal Grid Facilitates Delivery of Complete Records

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Aug 23, 2016 | Archives

All patients want their caregivers to have ready access to up-to-date and complete medical records during each encounter, irrespective of the time or place. Yet after the investment of billions of dollars by provider organizations and government on healthcare...

MACRA Targets Meaningful in Meaningful Use

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Aug 23, 2016 | Archives

The 2015 Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) opened the way for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to streamline the quality improvement and healthcare information technology programs built over the past several years. Since the...