By William Hersh MD – One of the aspects of medicine that struck me as a medical student was its imprecision. I was surprised, sometimes shocked, at decisions that were made based on vague symptoms reported by patients, ambiguous findings detected on physical examination, and even variation in “hard” measurements such as laboratory results.
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By William Hersh, MD – Lately I have received requests for advice from physicians in training asking what they can do to make themselves more competitive for clinical informatics fellowship positions. In some sense these are similar to the emails I receive from established physicians asking about eligibility for the clinical informatics subspecialty here and now.
By William Hersh, MD – Like many in academic informatics, my career has benefitted greatly from the support of National Library of Medicine (NLM), the institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that has been devoted to, among other things, support for research and training in biomedical and health informatics.
By William Hersh – As in all complex endeavors, the push for a healthcare system underpinned by structured and interoperable electronic health record (EHR) data has turned out to be more complicated than we might have anticipated when acceleration of EHR adoption was begun about a decade ago.
Two local informatics-related happenings recently provided teachable moments demonstrating why a comprehensive approach to standards and interoperability is so critical for realizing the value of health IT. Fortunately, the ONC has prioritized interoperability among its activities moving forward.
Proposing the Addition of a SOC Code for Informatics William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor About a decade ago, as my…
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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…
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…