It is an interesting time in medicine.
Dr. Wes
Maintenance of certification in cardiac electrophysiology: Taking the stick
Shuzan, a Buddhist monk of the tenth century, once held up a bamboo stick before his disciples. "Call this a stick," he bellowed, "and you assert; call this not a stick, and you negate. Now, do not assert or negate, what would you call this stick? Speak! Speak!"
Saying goodbye to drug samples
Soon, doctors won’t be handing patients drug samples from time to time, pharmacists will.
Doctors were told that makes a difference. It will soon be a national trend, they were told. Instead of handing a patient a sample, just type in an order for a sample to the EMR and the pharmacist will make sure they get it.
With Obamacare: Remember the Challenger
How to solve the doctor burn-out problem
Welcome to the new health care
When doctors’ names are bought and sold
Recently, an envelope arrived for me containing an advertisement from Mercedes-Benz:
The advertisement was co-branding with the American Medical Association, leading me to suspect the obvious: my name was sold.
Review: The strategy that will fix healthcare
Case study: The “simple” ICD revision
The following is an actual cardiac electrophysiology case study offered with the patient’s permission. It’s technical and contains an image that might turn some folks’ stomachs, so for those who are a bit squeamish or just ate a meal: consider yourself warned and feel free to pass on this post. For the rest of you who remain interested and don’t mind medical images, good luck.
It was supposed to be a simple ICD revision.
The cloudy aspects of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act
The innovator’s challenge
I’ve written many blog posts about our efforts along the path to ICD-10 that will enhance our inpatient clinical documentation. We’re hard at work planning the improvements we think are foundational to support care coordination, compliance, and quality measurement goals.