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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

October 2, 2021 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 6 minutes

Medicine is facing a crisis of information. Beyond the increase of biomedical information are rising demands for physician response to portal messaging (MyChart messages) and review of wearable generated data.  More recently health professionals have seen a rise in MyChart messages coming in through the Epic patient portal. According to Epic, the number of ... Continue Reading about MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

Tagged With: Burnout, EHR, Epic

Information, Physicians

The Future of Medical Meetings

April 15, 2021 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 3 minutes

I suspect COVID-19 and our one year experiment with virtual conferences may force us to rethink the future of medical meetings. I began asking questions about medical conferences a long time ago. I saw them as expensive junkets to endure boring speakers talking about stuff that I could get on other media. Kinda like medical students who skip the the amphitheater in ... Continue Reading about The Future of Medical Meetings

Tagged With: Medical meetings

Future Medicine, Information, Patients

Will the Final Rule Change How Doctors Document?

April 8, 2021 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 3 minutes

I've been wondering: Will the 21st Century Cures Act Final Rule change how doctors document? Recently Skeptical Scalpel (surgeon, writer and senior member of the Twitter intelligentsia) shared the experience of a family member who was worried about her cervical MRI report: My 38 year old non-medical daughter just got the results of her cervical spine MRI online. ... Continue Reading about Will the Final Rule Change How Doctors Document?

Tagged With: EHR, Final rule, Information, MD Future

Information, Technology

Zooming Court From the Operating Room

March 17, 2021 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 3 minutes

As health professionals we’ve all multitasked on Zoom calls. But few of us have done Zoom calls with a patient asleep in front of us. Recently we heard the story of a California plastic surgeon Zooming court from the operating room with a patient on the operating table. “Hello, Mr. Green? Hi, are you available for trial?” a courtroom clerk said as Dr. Green, ... Continue Reading about Zooming Court From the Operating Room

Tagged With: Attention, Information overload

Digital culture, Information

Twitter Suspends Trump – How it Could Change the Internet

January 14, 2021 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 5 minutes

Last week’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol will live in infamy. Twitter suspends Trump and Facebook and YouTube follow in suit. It may serve as one of the most historic moments the history of the web. A few thoughts on how we got here and where we may be headed. This first appeared in the 33 charts newsletter. You can subscribe here to get stuff like this ... Continue Reading about Twitter Suspends Trump – How it Could Change the Internet

Information, Social/Public Media

One Vaccine or Two | What the Debate Tells Us

January 5, 2021 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

If you spend any time with doctors, epidemiologists and concerned citizens on Twitter you’ll catch the latest debate: One vaccine or two for COVID. The logic is that given limited supplies of vaccine we’re better off with more folks getting one vaccine with reasonably good protection rather than immunizing a smaller number up front with better protection. To date our ... Continue Reading about One Vaccine or Two | What the Debate Tells Us

Tagged With: COVID, Vaccines

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Bryan Vartabedian is the Chief Pediatrics Officer at Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin and one of health care’s influential
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