CEO of medical informatics group steps down
Douglas Fridsma, CEO of the American Medical Informatics Association, resigned on January 1. He had led the organization for five years.
Douglas Fridsma, CEO of the American Medical Informatics Association, resigned on January 1. He had led the organization for five years.
Through the new collaboration, which was announced during this year's AMIA Annual Symposium, OpenNotes and the American Medical Informatics Association want to give patients better access to their provider's clinical notes.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
The American Medical Association has founded the Integrated Health Model Initiative, a collaborative that brings the healthcare and technology sectors together around a shared data model. Organizations such as Cerner and IBM have already signed on as participants.
Clinical notes take a lot of time and often are not all that effective in capturing the patient story.
Patricia Flatley Brennan officially took the reins of the National Library of Medicine just two months ago, and already the veteran nursing informatics specialist is putting her stamp on the federal agency.
What the two platforms are doing are opening up components of clinical trial recruitment, data collection and participant retention to wide audiences of people with specific healthcare conditions.
"A clinician can influence one patient. An informatician can influence hundreds of thousands."
Progress in tackling patient engagement and digital health growth continue, and Neil Versel shares what insights came out of this year's AMIA conference.
A three-month experiment in Canada with bimonthly text messages, a Web portal and home-based medical devices produced an average weight decrease of 3.5 pounds and a mean reduction in hemoglobin A1c levels from 7.41 to 6.77 percent in Type 2 diabetics.
"In the last five years, we have gone from a primarily analog business to a primarily digital business," Dr. Robert Wachter said at AMIA 2015.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
What do people who consider themselves something other than fully male or female call themselves? That's not so easy, as a presenter at AMIA demonstrated.
Perhaps it's workflow, perhaps it's culture, perhaps it's just the nature of the setting, but physician assistants and nurse practitioners have been ?e-prescribing? ?at a higher rate than physicians in the ED of Children's National Health System in Washington, D.C.
It's a name with juice, and perhaps more than a little hint of Apple. But will it bear fruit for the EHR vendor?
A Brigham hospitalist discussed the program Monday at the American Medical Informatics Association annual symposium.
Based on early research presented Monday at the American Medical Informatics Association annual symposium, clinicians initially were apprehensive about opening up so much information to their patients, but most eventually came around to see the benefits of this kind of patient engagement.