Usability challenges continue to affect health information technology (HIT), according to a viewpoint article by Raj M. Ratwani, PhD, of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, Georgetown University School of Medicine, in Washington, DC, and colleagues, published in JAMA. Most US hospitals and ambulatory clinicians have adopted electronic health records (EHR),…
By 2030, robots will likely replace 800 million workers. Will physicians make the cut?
As technologic tools in clinical practice becomes more standard, it is easy for physicians to become burdened.
While smartphone app use led to increased medication adherence, corresponding drops in systolic blood pressure were not seen.
The FDA Digital Health Software Precertification Program represents a feasible solution to regulate software classified as a medical device.
Researchers suggest medicine should mirror other consumer industries with targeted, personalized therapies.
Customer service is a critical part of every physician’s job, but there’s a big difference between a Yelp review and a risk-adjusted mortality rate in determining
With the rapid rise in technologic advances and the increase in medical specialties in the last half-century, the creation of a new specialty — the medical virtualist — could be an effective response to new care challenges.
Artificial intelligence, in which computers can be trained to recognize patterns in large quantities of data, may be able to reduce physicians’ burdens, saving them time and energy.
Researchers suggest that sensor technology that monitors medication adherence may help improve both adherence and patient outcomes.
