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By early 2004, Eric Drew was supposed to die. His doctors thought he would. So did Richard Gibson, who was an employee at the Seattle cancer treatment center where Drew had been a leukemia patient since the prior September.
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The decades-old quest to bring artificial intelligence to bear on everyday healthcare decisionmaking is moving inexorably forward, according to health informatics experts.
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Cardiologist Dr. Lewis Coulson, a Veterans Health Administration physician for the past 42 years, works with one of the best electronic health information systems in the world—the VA's VistA.
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Driven by federal incentive programs and a growing body of research, providers are ramping up attempts to engage patients and promote shared decisionmaking. But those efforts could face significant obstacles, hindering one of the central tenets of the healthcare reform law.
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Without fanfare or so much as a news release, a unit of UnitedHealth Group acquired Humedica, a Boston clinical data analytics firm with tight ties to the American Medical Group Association.
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With the clock running toward the start of a tougher stage of the electronic health-record incentive program, the government is struggling to hold up its end on testing and certifying the next generation of EHRs.
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"It's a rotten system,” declares Dr. Lawrence Weed, who at age 89 is the dean of healthcare information technology iconoclasts.
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The title of Dr. Scot Silverstein's teaching website at Drexel University, “Contemporary Issues in Medical Informatics: Good Health IT, Bad Health IT, and Common Examples of Healthcare IT Difficulties,” summarizes the veteran physician informaticist's general outlook on the current...
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Some agencies of the federal government earn praise from patient privacy advocate Dr. Deborah Peel; for others, it's reproach.
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Researcher Ross Koppel started an uproar in 2005 when he and a colleague coauthored an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association that found a first-generation computerized physician order entry system (CPOE) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania was simultaneously...
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