I’ve been cynical about the role the established major vendors of EHRs will play in developing better products partly because of their prior actions. On the more egregious side is […]
July 14, 2020
June 20, 2020
Burnout: The Problem is Us
Commiserating after another 26-hour call shift, a fellow resident and I realize that both of us have independently arrived at this depressing calculus: yes, getting COVID could mean life-threatening illness, […]
June 6, 2020
Communication and APIs
I recently joked that I’m in “Grade 23” — K-12, 4 years of a Bachelor of Science, 2 years of a Master’s of Applied Science, 4 years of medical school, […]
May 28, 2020
Products vs Platforms: The Future of EHRs
As I see it, there are two approaches to building a successful EHR. The first is to build The Perfect Product. This is very, very hard. Maybe once in a […]
May 22, 2020
The Vision
In 2009, during the depths of the Great Recession, President Obama and the US Congress passed a law that accelerated the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) as part of […]