Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 12/23/24 – HIStalk
I enjoyed Mr. H’s recent survey asking, “Which winter holiday is most important to you?” It came at a time when someone had sent me a meme about how to best leverage holidays in…
Continue ReadingI enjoyed Mr. H’s recent survey asking, “Which winter holiday is most important to you?” It came at a time when someone had sent me a meme about how to best leverage holidays in…
Continue ReadingThe US Congress is delivering an end of year cliffhanger in the form of expansive legislation designed to fund the government so that there’s not a shutdown when current funding runs out on December…
Continue ReadingIt’s that time of year when well-known people are delivering their predictions for 2025. I’ve seen plenty of them talk about how “transformative” AI will be. The most commonly cited use cases include the…
Continue ReadingThe US Department of Health and Human Services recently launched the National Healthcare Safety Dashboard that tracks patient and workforce harm. The goal is to monitor patient safety indicators so that improvement can result….
Continue ReadingIt’s definitely a slow time in the healthcare technology universe. The HLTH conference is in the rearview mirror and HIMSS is still a couple of months away.
CES will happen in January, although on…
It’s that time of year, with cybersecurity firm NordPass releasing its annual list of most used passwords. Topping the Hall of Shame list this year: secret, 123456, password, qwerty123, qwerty1, 123456789, password1, 12345678, 12345,…
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This weekend marked the two-year anniversary of the debut of ChatGPT. This seems to be a good time to reflect on where generative AI has taken us during that interval.
When it initially…
At several conferences I’ve attended lately, there has been discussion among clinical informaticists about how increasing use of technology might be affecting our ability to process information and retain items in memory.
In speaking…
The number one topic of discussion at a recent meeting of primary care physicians that I attended was how their health systems are using AI to help with documentation. The majority of the conversation…
Continue ReadingThe practices in which I’ve spent the majority of my clinical time over the past few years don’t use AI-assisted or ambient transcription technologies. One uses human scribes, while the other leaves physicians to…
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