by Matthew Rehrl MD | AI Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Healthcare Ethics, Healthcare Revenue
Have you ever noticed how a patient’s body mass index (BMI) in the EHR seems to be placed alongside a patient’s vital signs, as if it is a vital sign? I don’t think BMI is a vital sign. For me, there are only four vital signs (blood pressure, heart rate,...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Big Data, EHR, Healthcare Ethics
I have no emotional attachment to the number known as BMI—the Body Mass Index. When I see it in print I feel neither pleasure nor anger, joy nor despair, hope nor fear. It is an index—a mathematical trick that lives in the same part of my brain as other indexes: the...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Big Data, Blogging, Healthcare Ethics
At the end of each month, I enjoy reviewing my last month’s blog posts to see if there was at least one rough diamond, one insightful idea. (This falls under the principle that even a broken clock is right twice a day, or if you shoot enough arrows you are bound to...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | AI Ethics, Big Data
Attending a recent online Health Chat by one of the FAANG companies, a software developer referred to a patient’s “digital phenotype”. A phenotype is the set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Big Data, EHR
Whenever discussions about electronic health records (EHRs) come up, HIPPA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is often trotted out as the end-all-be-all addressing privacy concerns. “Our software is HIPPA compliant,” answers the industry...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Big Data, EHR
Recently, in the Health IT Social Media Galaxy ( granted, a rather small galaxy), there has been much attention paid to EPIC CEO Judy Faulkner’s response to the proposed Health and Human Services (HHS) regulations—regulations which may make it easier for patients to...
