By William Hersh MD – A number of interesting papers on physician competencies in artificial intelligence have been published recently, and there is no question that all 21st century healthcare professions must have a thorough understanding of the benefits and limitations of AI that they are likely to use in their clinical work.
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By William Hersh – In a previous post, I related the case of an excellent model that predicted hospital readmission yet when used in the context of real-world effort to reduce admissions was not able to lower the rate. New studies are highlighting this scenario again.
By William Hersh MD – There is growing consensus that patients should be owners and stewards of their personal health and healthcare data. They should also have the right to control access to chosen healthcare professionals, institutions, and researchers.
By William Hersh – Under the leadership of its new Director, Patricia Brennan, PhD, RN, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is undertaking a strategic planning process to develop goals and priorities for the NLM going forward.
By William Hersh MD – The year 2016 has been a busy but fun year of personal achievements. Many of the notable accomplishments involved giving talks, both in person and online, and around the country and the world.
By William Hersh – Even though many medical students and physicians do not acknowledge it, information has always been a major focus of clinical practice. Physicians have always spent a great deal of time with information, as evidenced by studies that describe time use of physicians.
By William Hersh – The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality is an unheralded government agency that performs a great deal of healthcare-related research out of proportion to its small size. Just browsing through the AHRQ web site makes it clear that agency does a great breadth of work for its annual $400 million budget.
By William Hersh – NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins accepted a report from his Advisory Committee that set forth a strategic vision that affirmed the NLM as a strategic leader in data science, biomedical informatics, and as a library resource.
By William Hersh – Many of us in the informatics field, myself included, sometimes believe that the value proposition of informatics is so intuitively obvious that we do not need to explain it to the rest of the world. API-based interoperability? Secondary use of clinical data? Standardized terminology? Their value is so certain that we need not explain it. Not!