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Cures Act Final Rule – How It Will Change Medicine

October 7, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 9 minutes

The ONC Cures Act Final Rule (Cures Rule) is the biggest health care law you’ve never heard of. But it’s a law that's going to fundamentally shift the way we see patients and their information. It will change how physicians talk to patients about information. It will shift the way health professionals connect patients to their information. So what is it and what does ... Continue Reading about Cures Act Final Rule – How It Will Change Medicine

Tagged With: e-patient, EHR, Final rule, Information

Future Medicine, Patients

Genius Bar for Healthcare – Not Ready for Primetime

September 15, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 3 minutes

A challenge was thrown down on Twitter recently: If we had a Genius Bar for healthcare what would it look like? (paraphrased and originally asked by health designer Nick Dawson) I’ve seen this question before and it reflects a recurring ideal in healthcare: the efficient, service-oriented transactional experience where a problem is identified and fixed. But the ... Continue Reading about Genius Bar for Healthcare – Not Ready for Primetime

Tagged With: Patient experience

Hospitals, Patients

Refusing Telemedicine – Can Patients Opt-out of Remote Care?

July 13, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 3 minutes

With the sweeping rise of COVID19 telemedicine has taken healthcare by storm. During the local surges, this served as a mandated way of maintaining safe distancing. But as things come back to a new normal and as we decide where telemedicine fits in to a clinic structure it might be worth asking: should patients have the option for in-person care. Is refusing ... Continue Reading about Refusing Telemedicine – Can Patients Opt-out of Remote Care?

Tagged With: Telemedicine

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The Patient is Always Right – But Right About What?

May 5, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

In business it’s been suggested that the customer is always right. And in medicine the patient is always right. Right about their perspective. Right about their agenda. Right about their hidden agenda Right about their symptoms. Right about their story. Right about what they're most concerned with. Right about what they ... Continue Reading about The Patient is Always Right – But Right About What?

Tagged With: Doctoring 101

Future Medicine, Patients

The Physician and the Health Docent

August 13, 2019 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

Last week STAT First Opinion carried the story of a young woman who learned of her BRCA1 (mutation predisposing to breast cancer) mutation on a 23andMe report. She describes the experience of processing that explosive bit of information in the isolation of her own mind and information network. Contrasting this experience with the confirmation of her status with a ... Continue Reading about The Physician and the Health Docent

Tagged With: MD Future

Patients

Non-Place in Health Care

August 7, 2019 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

Amber Case got me thinking with this brief essay on the non-place. Briefly defined, non-places are urban or industrial spaces where personhood is put on pause. And they’re everywhere, from airports, highways and chain supermarkets, to narrow, suffocating, condo-filled streets — the in-between spaces where people are without relation or history. In a ... Continue Reading about Non-Place in Health Care

Tagged With: Design Thinking

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Bryan Vartabedian is a pediatrician at Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Children’s Hospital and one of health care’s influential voices on technology & medicine.
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