by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Aug 26, 2022 | EHR
I write my rough drafts with a software called Scrivener. I like using it because they have an excellent tutorial system and user’s guide—all part of the initial package cost. They also have a blog and a podcast. Simple put, the software developers at Scrivener give...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Apr 16, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence, EHR, Philosophy
I have a difficult question about the philosophy of electronic health records (EHRs) that I want to ask someone: Should we consider the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the tonal voice analysis of patient-physician conversations and it’s subsequent natural...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Mar 9, 2022 | AI Ethics, Big Data, EHR
I am not necessarily opposed to an institution acquiring high volumes of data from my electronic health record (EHR), even without my explicit consent. Data harvesting often results in public health benefits and sometimes results in patient population benefits. Heck,...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Feb 27, 2022 | EHR, Healthcare Ethics, Philosophy
I recently read a solid research article about healthcare bias called Examination of Stigmatizing Language in the Electronic Health Record published in JAMA Network Open. The article concluded that “findings suggest that stigmatizing language appears in...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Feb 22, 2022 | EHR, Health, Healthcare 3.0
Being a patient with a significant medical problem (or problems) is something new for me. For the majority of my life, I haven’t needed to engage with the healthcare system—but time waits for no man, and some decline in health is inevitable. It’s certainly...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Feb 10, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Deontology, EHR, Philosophy
I am fascinated by the questions surrounding the ethics of data mining a patient’s electronic health record (EHR) after they die. Consider this: From a healthcare corporation’s point of view, the EHR of a patient, after they die, becomes extremely valuable. Why?...
