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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

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Within Normal Limits

August 1, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

If you poke around old medical records you’ll find WNL written in parts of the physical exam. Neurological: WNL. It means within normal limits. It’s the pen and ink dotphrase used through most of paper record history by physicians to indicate that the organ or system under exam was unremarkable. One of medicine’s most versatile and open-ended acronyms, within ... Continue Reading about Within Normal Limits

Tagged With: Big Thinking, EHR, Physical exam

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Doximity Dialer Now Part of the Doximity App

May 7, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

33c is thrilled to have Doximity as a sponsor this week. The ideas below, however, are shaped and written on my own. You might not have noticed it, but last week Doximity Dialer was rolled into the Doximity app making it part of the growing set of Doximity offerings for health care professionals (For a summary of what Doximity is up to, see my post last month when ... Continue Reading about Doximity Dialer Now Part of the Doximity App

EHR/Health IT, Process/Flow

JotForm – A HIPAA-compliant Solution to One of Healthcare’s Biggest Workflow Problems

April 19, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

33c is thrilled to have JotForm as a sponsor this week. The ideas below are shaped and written on my own. So it’s a recurrent theme in clinics everywhere. The patient shows for their appointment on time. They sit filling out forms. The doctor waits for the forms to be filled out. If the patient is accessing two different clinics in a facility, they may fill out the ... Continue Reading about JotForm – A HIPAA-compliant Solution to One of Healthcare’s Biggest Workflow Problems

Tagged With: Clinic Operations, HIPAA

EHR/Health IT, Physicians, Process/Flow

Keyboarding Doctors: Would You Hire a Doctor Who Can’t Type?

March 26, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

In 2011 I wrote about typing as a critical physician skill. Things haven’t changed much. Voice recognition has improved but admittedly only works in certain contexts. Typing remains key. It’s the interface to the digital world. You can quibble about EHRs but the critical nature of keyboarding goes well beyond records and impacts how we connect to the world. As I ... Continue Reading about Keyboarding Doctors: Would You Hire a Doctor Who Can’t Type?

Tagged With: Digital literacy, EHR

EHR/Health IT, Process/Flow

Why Doctors Would Hate The Best EHR in the World

January 31, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

If you got together the best user experience professionals in Silicon Valley and invested billions into the creation of The Best EHR in the World, doctors would still hate it. They would complain that The Best EHR in the World is destroying medicine and hurting patients. Long essays in the Sunday New York Times would wax nostalgic about the good old days before the ... Continue Reading about Why Doctors Would Hate The Best EHR in the World

Tagged With: EHR, Physicians

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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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