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Conclusion: For every hour physicians provide direct clinical face time to patients, nearly 2 additional hours is spent on EHR…
In psychiatry, generative AI can make clinical work less difficult, but it also has the power to potentially cause immense harm…
This article is sponsored by the Nuance® Dragon® Ambient eXperience, an AI-powered, voice-enabled ambient clinical intelligence …
Enlarge (credit: Sean Justice/Getty) Ten years ago, 12-year-old Rory Staunton dove for a ball in gym class and scraped…
This summer, Amazon purchased the One Medical national chain of primary care practices for nearly $4 billion. As David…
“Doctor, it’s taken so long to get this appointment with you!” This is the opening line of so many medical visits, and I find…
“Doctor, it’s taken so long to get this appointment with you!” This is the opening line of so many medical visits, and I find…
As an off-cycle medical student with an extended break between the completion of my M4 rotations and the conferment of my MD, I…
Doctors often find the electronic health record (EHR) time-consuming and annoying. However, quantitative estimates of physicians…
Paul Shafer is an assistant professor of health law, policy, and management at the Boston University School of Public Health…
This episode is sponsored by the Rush University Series at The Podcast by KevinMD. As we enter a year and a half into a…
This article is sponsored by the Dragon Ambient eXperience at Nuance. The exam of the future has arrived with clinical…
Healthcare professionals are healers, not data clerks. Yet many clinicians spend half their day on a computer navigating…
The patient-provider relationship is among the most intimate relationships in an individual’s life. In fact, the details shared…
U.S. patients make roughly 193 million trips to see family physicians each year. That’s 67 million more than the nation’s next-la…
Burnout is a big and burgeoning problem in the United States. According to a recent Mayo Clinic report, it affects 28% of the…
Dear lawyers: You got it right. Your operations make sense. I know this is wrong for me to say — doctors and lawyers are often…
The transition to electronic health records (EHRs) was supposed to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare for doctors…
We've all been there -- in an exam room with a patient with whom we have a relationship that, in some cases, goes back decades.
The introduction of electronic health records (EHRs) was accompanied by a great deal of fanfare. Such systems, which replace…
In 1948, LIFE magazine published a photo essay that captures a doctor and his patients in a rural Colorado community. The…
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) re-defined workplace burnout as a syndrome consisting of …
A doctor friend – let's call her Anne – was teaching three smart medical students who were told to diagnose a woman complaining…
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Eight with a known patient, 10 to 24 with a new patient: these are the average amount of minutes medicine interns spend with…
Eight with a known patient, 10 to 24 with a new patient: these are the average amount of minutes medicine interns spend with…
W. Nicholson Price IIFor the Symposium on The Law And Policy Of AI, Robotics, and Telemedicine In Health Care.How will…
July 13—The case for greater cost control at hospitals received its latest boost from…
Although this study about 18 months old, I just came across this and the findings were really surprising. During the office day…
By ROBERT WACHTER and JEFF…
The best doctor-patient relationships, and the worst, often perform their finale at an autopsy. Samuel Shem, in his novel The…
March 19—About half of all U.S. practicing physicians experience burnout, and several recent studies have placed the blame…
Historically, the doctor-patient relationship has been at the heart of medical practice, with administrative tasks and record-kee…
A movement is growing in the underbelly of the internet. On Facebook, a group called Physician Side Gigs has over 11,000…
The source of the common hospital-acquired infection known as C. diff can be hard to pin down in a busy,
You sign in, and there it is, your third request for your password just to open your electronic health record (EHR). “Again?…
Medical appointments are getting shorter by the year. Sometimes it feels like doctors have no time to spend with their patients.
Shutterstock Medical appointments are getting shorter by the year. Sometimes it feels like doctors have no time to spend with…
Like some virulent bacteria doubling on the agar plate, the EMR grows more gargantuan with each passing month, requiring ever…
Doctors spent nearly twice as much time doing administrative work as actually seeing patients: 49 percent of their time, versus…
The prevalence of burnout among physicians is estimated to be more than 50 percent and has grown in recent years. This alarming…
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A pediatrician husband recently wrote here in KevinMD about the stark differences in assumptions about work-life balance for…
Doctors see firsthand the toll that today’s increasingly stressful society takes on patients: Engineers, office managers…
To the patients concerned about the future of health care: We need one another now more than ever. In April last year, I…
Allison Schmitt has had an Olympic medal placed around her neck seven times. But the honor she received this month in Washington…
Allison Schmitt has had an Olympic medal placed around her neck seven times. But the honor she received this month in Washington…
When you go to the internet or phone book today, there are hundreds of physicians listed in most urban areas. In the next two…
The Choosing Wisely campaign emerged in the United States with the intention of galvanizing physicians to reduce unnecessary…
The Quadruple Aim recognizes that a healthy, energized, engaged, and resilient physician workforce is essential to achieving…
There’s absolutely no good reason why Sally should have been in the hospital. Not a day over 60, she had come to the emergency…
Too often in primary care, our practices don't get paid for all of the work we do.For example, the average medical practice…
Too often in primary care, our practices don't get paid for all of the work we do.For example, the average medical practice…
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Most people choose to go into the health professions to help others, to make a secure living, and to…
I Rulify that if you cannot count it, you cannot change it. However, I also Rulify in true panther fashion that simply because…
By B. Corbett Walsh…
Feel like you spend twice as much time on your electronic health record as you do with patients? You may be doing better than…
In a recent PBS interview, Mayo Clinic CEO Dr. John Noseworthy suggested patients should “change physicians” when faced with non…
Follow me @drmoniquetello Have you noticed that when you go to a doctor’s office, the providers are on a computer or flipping…
One of the topics I've written most about on this blog has been our woes with inefficient and cumbersome electronic medical…
In the heat of political gridlock when it seemed impossible for Congress to pass any laws, the Medicare and CHIP…
I recently finished a long weekend of call for my group practice. I managed pages from our answering service and phone calls…
In 2009 the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) was signed into law by President Obama…
A guest column by the American College of Physicians, exclusive to KevinMD.com. This September, I reached a milestone, the…
The television doctors: Striding purposefully through the ER, giving orders, surrounded by a gaggle of eager learners and a…
Allocation of Physician Time in Ambulatory Practice: A Time and Motion Study in 4…
Allocation of Physician Time in Ambulatory Practice: A Time and Motion Study in 4…
Top News A tiny AMA-sponsored time and motion study finds that ambulatory practice doctors spend almost twice as much time…