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Touch | Beyond the Physical Examination

October 26, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minutes

I read recently about a patient who spent 4 hours in an ER but was never experienced touch by a human. Not surprising, really. Technology is doing a lot of what we used to do with our eyes, ears and hands. For better or worse. While physicians often associate touch with the physical exam, it can facilitate more powerful things. Here are a few things the hand can ... Continue Reading about Touch | Beyond the Physical Examination

Tagged With: Doctoring 101, Physical exam, Touch

Information, Patients

Health Data Without Wisdom is a Spreadsheet

September 5, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minutes

Increasingly EHR systems like Epic are automatically releasing test results to patients. This release of health data should be a good thing. But when a machine delivers data alone we fail to help patients achieve understanding of what it means. Personal health data without knowledge and wisdom is just a spreadsheet. We have to figure out how to help patients ... Continue Reading about Health Data Without Wisdom is a Spreadsheet

Tagged With: Information

Hospitals, Patients

Keep Mama Happy

August 18, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

“We’ve gotta keep Mama happy” I hear this from time to time from pediatricians. The idea is that if we don’t give a mother what she’s looking for, she’ll walk. As a resident I had a preceptor who loved to pull me aside to teach me the ‘inside baseball’ of pediatrics. One day after prescribing antibiotics to a child with a runny nose, he remarked with a wink and ... Continue Reading about Keep Mama Happy

Tagged With: Clinic Operations, Doctoring 101, Patient experience

Hospitals, Patients, Social/Public Media

CNN, the Mayo Clinic and Healthcare’s Dialog Double Standard

August 16, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

The CNN Mayo Clinic hatchet job illustrates a dilemma faced by health care organizations. Specifically, the position hospitals find themselves in when wrongly accused of patient mistreatment. Those connected with the alleged mistreatment have the ability to say what they want without accountability. But health privacy law prevents hospitals from publicly defending ... Continue Reading about CNN, the Mayo Clinic and Healthcare’s Dialog Double Standard

Tagged With: HIPAA, Hospital marketing, Hospitals, Social media

EHR/Health IT, Patients

4 Reasons OpenNotes Will Rock SXSW Interactive in 2019

August 13, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

If you haven’t heard, OpenNotes has a killer panel submitted for the 2019 SXSW Interactive Festival: Transparency in Healthcare, One Note At a Time. For the uninformed, OpenNotes is an international movement advocating for the availability of medical providers’ notes to patients. The team at OpenNotes has pulled together University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s ... Continue Reading about 4 Reasons OpenNotes Will Rock SXSW Interactive in 2019

Tagged With: OpenNotes, SXSW

Information, Patient experience

How a Language Barrier Creates Opportunity

July 26, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minutes

As a physician in one of the most diverse cities in the United States I often communicate with families with the help of an interpreter. Some see the language barrier as a compromise and a challenge. But it’s really an opportunity. What we fail to achieve with use of words we can bridge with non-verbal communication. Expression, touch, tone, and animation will ... Continue Reading about How a Language Barrier Creates Opportunity

Tagged With: Communication, Doctoring 101, Patient experience

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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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