Search Tag: physician
2023 14 Sep
The analysis of clinician feedback is critical for pinpointing three fundamental pillars essential to Electronic Health Record (EHR) satisfaction: (1) a high level of user expertise, (2) an organisation-wide sense of shared ownership, and (3) EHR technology that aligns with users' specific requirements, often referred to as personalisation. This report...Read more
2023 05 Jun
Sutter Health has named Todd Smith, M.D., to the newly created role of senior vice president and chief physician executive. He will officially start in this new role on June 12. Dr. Smith will serve on Sutter Health’s executive leadership team and will have broad responsibility for leading the system’s clinical transformation in providing consumer-centric,...Read more
2023 15 May
In a recent cross-sectional study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers evaluated the ability of ChatGPT to provide responses to patient questions that are of comparable quality and empathy to those produced by doctors. The team drew 195 answers to patient questions from October 2022 over a publicly accessible social media forum....Read more
2022 31 Aug
Vial introduces a new member joining their Oncology CRO Advisory Board. Eric Jonasch, MD, is a Genitourinary Medical Oncology Professor and Physician at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX. Dr. Jonasch will act as a scientific advisor for Vial’s Oncology CRO alongside members Dr. Antoni Ribas, Dr. Guru Sonpavde,...Read more
2022 30 Aug
Innovista Health Solutions (Innovista) named Dr. Vikram Bakhru as its new chief executive officer. Bakhru is a practicing physician with more than 20 years of experience dedicated to the intersection of technology and the improvement of health outcomes for underserved populations. Dr. Bakhru most recently served as chief health officer for...Read more
2021 22 Feb
In light of harsh criticism regarding physicians’ prioritising scarce resources during the COVID-19 pandemic, the question arises: is prioritising truly a physicians’ problem? The COVID-19 pandemic has led to pronounced discrepancies between the need for medical care and the ability of many health care systems to provide it. Subsequently,...Read more
2020 13 Jan
A new paper published by researchers from Stanford highlights five practices that could play a critical role in implementing and achieving more meaningful interactions with patients. The paper, published in JAMA, addresses the need to repair doctor-patient relationships as they exist today. It is based on research conducted with Presence, an interdisciplinary...Read more
2019 22 May
How can healthcare accelerate the implementation of the science? Where is Personalised Medicine (PM) already improving the lives of patients and what is needed to make it the standard of care across multiple conditions? What’s your brief at the PMC? I have a science and genetics background and bring scientific...Read more
2019 22 Feb
Effective models of trust How can you incorporate the all-important ingredient of trust within your healthcare team? Once upon a time, it was possible for a doctor to hold most of what she needed to know to practice medicine within her own brain. This was long before Google and before medicine was carved up into specialties...Read more
2019 15 Jan
Radiologists and administrators working together is key to successfully navigate within the current 'lion's arena'- unpredictable, demanding, shifting healthcare ecosystem. In a report published in the JACR , experts show that leadership of a department or organisation, when there is intentional and mindful doctor-administrator partnership results...Read more
2019 15 Jan
A significant number of academic radiology department chairs in the United States suffer from burnout according to the first study investigating burnout among these medical professionals, published in Academic Radiology . Researchers found that burnout in radiology chairs needs to be dealt with immediately through national, institutional and departmental...Read more
2018 26 Sep
A physician’s office is a busy place, and patients often have to queue up just to see their physician. Time is precious, and apparently time is something which physicians and staff can never have enough of. "Making the most of this time and communicating well is key," says Matt Eventoff, a communication and messaging strategist and founder...Read more
2018 25 Jan
T echnology i s changing the face of medical laboratory operatio n. As healthcare technology advances, medical laboratories need to keep ahead of the curve on trends for optimal operation and interoperability. HealthManagement.org looks at key areas where changes are happening at full tilt. Point-of-care testing for lab...Read more
2017 07 Nov
Removing an employed physician from a practice is never easy. There are many things to consider, in particular, the needs of patients under his or her care. However, there comes a time when it becomes necessary for management to terminate a provider. Experts say several steps could provide a framework to make the process a bit smoother. While the...Read more
2017 19 Jul
I have been a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for many years but when at conferences, still, I am met with disbelief when people ask me about my field of work and I reply: "I am a physician". Admittedly my one-in-three on call days are behind me and my focus has shifted to the more theoretical, academic field...Read more