What is the Right Amount of Profit in Healthcare?
Can You Put a Price on Treatments That Saves a Life? William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor I have written in…
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Can the US Biomedical Research Enterprise Be Sustained?
Implications for Informatics William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor Although I focus a good deal of my writing in this blog…
OHSU Launches Clinical Informatics Fellowship
OHSU Accepting Applications to Begin in July William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor I am pleased to announce that Oregon Health &…
Gimme Some Analytics (We Already Have It!)
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor One of the most common requests we hear for new curricular content in our clinical…
Do Physicians Spend Too Much Time With Computers?
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor A recent study of work hours of medical interns in the new era of duty…
The Limits to De-Identification of Clinical Data
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor There is a wealth of opportunity for putting digital clinical data to use for better understanding health…
What is a Thinking Informatician to Think of IBM’s Watson?
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor One of the computer applications that has received the most attention in healthcare is Watson, the IBM system…
Universal EHR? No. Universal Data Access? Yes.
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor A recent blog posting calls for a “universal EMR” for the entire healthcare system. The author provides an example…
Workforce Group of the ONC Health IT Policy Committee Makes Its Recommendations
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor For the last nine months, I have had the opportunity to be part of a workgroup of…