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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

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Compromised connection: Lessons from a Year of Telemedicine

February 18, 2021 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 5 minutes

Let’s face it: Telemedicine isn’t there yet. I’ve been treating patients for nearly a year by remote care and so far I’m underwhelmed. And my patients have voted with their feet — most still want to see me in person. I suspect they're not happy with the compromised connection that telemedicine delivers. So I want to unpack some of my ideas on telemedicine. ... Continue Reading about Compromised connection: Lessons from a Year of Telemedicine

Tagged With: Telemedicine

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

EHR/Health IT, Physicians

Within Normal Limits

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

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

EHR/Health IT, Process/Flow

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

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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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