by Matthew Rehrl MD | EHR
Having seen about 50,000 patients with hand-written charts, and 50,000 patients with Electronic Health Records (EHRs), I am deeply aware of some of the benefits of EHRs. For example, having immediate access to an old EKG has helped prevent unnecessary admissions....
by Matthew Rehrl MD | EHR
Most healthcare organizations claim to be patient-centric. I do believe this is their intent. However, as the EHR becomes ever-more central for patient care—from documenting the patients’ presenting concern, to prior medical history, physical evaluation, labs, tests,...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Social Media, Twitter
My personal mission—and how I hope to spend the next decade or so—is to understand the confluence of health, healthcare, and artificial intelligence in the context of ethics. So why do I spend a lot of time thinking and writing about social media, such as Twitter,...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | EHR, Healthcare Ethics
I often wonder about the ethics of EHR de-identification. Assuming we can make de-identification perfect, with no risk of undoing this de-identification, should we be doing it? Well, as a starting point, and just for fun, let’s see what the Hippocratic Oath...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | AI Ethics, Artificial Intelligence
Using IBM Watson, here is a Personality Portrait based on three of my recent blog posts using artificial intelligence and natural language processing: Summary You are heartfelt, somewhat insensitive and skeptical. You are solemn: you are generally serious and do not...
