Healthcare IT Archives

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...

Gerrymandering Pop Health

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Jan 18, 2018 | Analytics

The 2016 election yielded 13 Republican and five Democratic congressmen representing the state of Pennsylvania. Although Republican congressional candidates won about 50% of the statewide vote, they currently hold 72% of the available House seats. In a country of “one...

How Tinkering with the ACA Puts Health IT Investments at Risk

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Oct 16, 2017 | Archives

Laws put in place over the past 70 years typically are done so with a delicate balance in mind —a bull in a china shop approach can do much damage in often unforeseen ways. However, it’s apparent that recent events portend myriad challenges for providers throughout...

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...