Evolution of Medical Education to Competency-Based Approaches
Can or Should Informatics Education Adopt Them? William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor There are major changes taking place in the…
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Will MOOCs Cause Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education?
Or Just Be a Valuable Resource? William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor As one who has been involved in online learning…
Discerning the Evidence Base for HIE
Preparing an Evidence Report on Health Information Exchange William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor Some of the most important projects in…
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…
Further Evidence That Health IT Job Growth Has Been Underestimated, and Some Ramifications
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor New data from an analysis of online job postings confirms that employment growth in health…
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…
Data Scientists Must Also Be Research Methodology Scientists
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor I had the chance recently to attend a conference in Singapore, Big Data and Analytics…
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…