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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...

3 Ways to Improve Return on IT Investment

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Mar 22, 2017 | Healthcare IT

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...

Reconsider Documentation Vision for EHRs

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Dec 21, 2016 | Archives

Remember the blue book? Starting as early as junior high school, teachers handed out that pale blue 8-by-8- inch booklet when each student had 50 minutes to handwrite as fast as possible everything they knew about a particular subject. Urban legend suggested teachers...

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...

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,...