Covid-19 has led to a sudden increase in the use of Telehealth to help us care for our patients. Many of my GP colleagues have switched to doing the majority of their patient care via Telehealth, whether that is Zoom for healthcare, some other video conferencing platform or the phone. But is there a role for TH directly with our patients in Ophthalmology?
Read MoreI’ve seen alot of Ophthalmology EMRs over the years, helped develop some, deploy others and teach large groups of Ophthalmologists on the benefits of using an EMR. Then there are the articles that I’ve started to write but waited before posting them and ultimately just kept them as drafts forever.
Read MoreIt starts with a journey or it's all part of a never ending journey? I am heading to Wisconsin to begin a three day EMR Physician Builder course. This first article covers the road trip that's led me to this point along with my expectations heading into the course. More to follow over the next few days.
Read MoreWe are trying to reach a point with Electronic Medical Records where we can easily share medical information between providers at different geographic locations. The road map for "meaningful use" had targeted this for 2014-15. Yet, the most widely used hospital based EMR system in this country, EPIC, fails to even allow sharing of data within our own hospital about a given patient let alone between other hospitals and ours. How did we drift so far from the goals of having EMRs actually help us care for patients?
Read MoreI started this site in 2009 to write about Glaucoma, Health IT (EMR, EHR), Technology and to host my podcast series "Talking About Glaucoma." There is a shortcut to this blog to make it easier to find http://iguy.tv/blog.
I am a glaucoma sub-specialized Ophthalmologist and have a full time clinical practice at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic of the Geisel School of Medicine in Hanover, NH. I have a longtime interest in the use of technology to help in medical care as well as in Education. In addition, I was a very early adopter and developer of Electronic Medical Record systems who has lectured internationally on the topic of making the transition to EMRs in daily practice.
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