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Care Planning

EMR event log study shows 6 hrs of use per day, but implicitly belittles the clinician’s cognitive effort and the EMR’s support

In a recent paper in the Annals of Family Medicine by Brian Arndt and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, the authors described the results

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Dr. Ward October 4, 2017 No Comments
Electronic Medical Records (EMRs)

In the dust-up about “rebooting” the EHR meaningful use incentive program, “the Emperor has no clothes” has been the most interesting response.

Last month, six Republican senators released a document entitled “Reboot: Reexamining the strategies needed to successfully adopt health IT.” The report asserts that the original goal

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Dr. Ward May 25, 2013 No Comments
ACO Reimbursement and Gain Sharing

New HIT ROI lit review is a methodologic tour de force, but misses the point

Recently, Jesdeep Bassi and Francis Lau of the University of Victoria (British Columbia) published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) another in

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Dr. Ward February 23, 2013 No Comments
ACO Culture

Reports of the death of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in the U.S. may have been exaggerated: The ongoing case of Mammography

Guidelines for the use of mammograms to screen for breast cancer have been the topic of one of the fiercest and longest-running debates in medicine.

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Dr. Ward August 13, 2011 No Comments
Behavior Change

Google engineering too slow? Facebook too invested in the wrong data model to adapt? Are you kidding me?

Few things in my work life are better than finding mind-blowing information from other industries and figuring out the implications for healthcare. I recently read

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Dr. Ward July 30, 2011 No Comments
ACO Reimbursement and Gain Sharing

Klar 4: Why is it important for CMS to Share Claims Data with ACOs?

Ron Klar, MD, MPH is a health care consultant with a long history of involvement in federal health care policy and health plan innovation. He

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Dr. Ward July 25, 2011 No Comments
Electronic Medical Records (EMRs)

Notes and Thoughts re new ONC leader Farzad Mostashari and Senators Daschle and Bennett at Bipartisan Policy Center

Today I attended a webcast sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center, an organization “committed to the art of principled compromise.” The webcast featured Farzad Mostashari, MD,

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Dr. Ward April 26, 2011 No Comments
ACO Structure & Governance

Why many clinical leaders prefer Registries to EHRs: Actively Structured Information

I went to the huge HIMSS’11 convention in Las Vegas a few weeks ago.  When visiting the bewildering number of vendor booths, I focused on

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Dr. Ward March 8, 2011 1 Comment
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