by Matthew Rehrl MD | EHR, Writing
At a recent online event at the Burke Museum, I attended a wonderful talk, The Lifeways and Stories reflected in Guests from the Great River, by the Native American artist Tony A. (naschio) Johnson (Chinook). Apart from describing his work, prominently installed at...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | EHR, Healthcare 3.0, Philosophy
Most people are familiar in some form with Wittgenstein’s Rabbit, a drawing where the image can be seen as both a duck or a rabbit with a shift in perspective. We may need to start thinking of healthcare in this way because I contend that with the centrality of the...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | AI Ethics, EHR
As an employee, when you work with a computer in any capacity, you have agreed to all of your computer activity is being monitored. In theory, this is both reasonable and legal. It’s the corporation’s hardware and software and you should only use it as part of your...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | AI Ethics, EHR, Philosophy
EHRs are superior to paper charts in two ways. First—because their content is digital—their contents are more easily mined, analyzed, and shared. And second? EHRs offer the ability to communicate directly to the patient, allowing the physician (or the...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, EHR, Natural Language Processing
One idea I run across frequently when hearing about natural language processing (NLP) and the electronic health record (EHR) is how real-time transcription of the conversations between patient and physician will free up the physician’s time so she can “concentrate on...
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...
