Posts Tagged ‘electronic medical records’

“If you don’t have a solution for me, then it’s not a problem.” This concise statement of wisdom distilled from human behavior explains why it has been so hard for so many years to have people pay attention to obesity in any constructive way. Doctors largely ignored it and rarely diagnosed it. Patients denied it. […]

Weight bias envelopes us. But especially in healthcare systems it is jarring at times. Pervasively, weight bias is coded into health systems. Sometimes it’s subtle. Other times it smacks a patient right in the face. Change is slow because systems evolve slowly. Electronic medical records systems, for example, take years to design and implement. So […]

It just might be that Apple has set the stage for a health reform that has been elusive for decades. The bane of health reformers has long been healthcare records that exist only in physical, paper files. Efficiencies that just about every other industry enjoyed were out of reach because of this addiction to paper records. It […]