interoperability Archives

Healthcare’s Groundhog Day

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Jan 13, 2023 | Healthcare Policy

We all know about Groundhog Day, February 2, when Punxsutawney Phil emerges from hibernation and predicts whether we will have six more weeks of winter. But there is a second Groundhog Day, which is January 1. On that day, about 20% of patients switch healthcare plans...

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...

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,...

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...

The Merging of HIT

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Jun 23, 2017 | Healthcare IT

As the frenzy associated with electronic medical record (EMR) implementation winds down, many industry experts wonder what new initiative sits on the horizon. While most organizations face a daunting task of redesigning clinical workflows and facilitating change...