Cross Post – Death By 1,000 Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong
From time to time on Neurosurgery Blog, you will see us cross-posting or linking to items from other places when we believe they hit the mark on an issue. Today’s post highlights a report produced by Fortune Magazine and Kaiser Family Foundation. The report examines how, “the U.S. government claimed that turning American medical charts […]
Atlas Shrugged Retold
Guest Post from Deborah L. Benzil, MD, FACS, FAANS Chair, AANS/CNS Communications and Public Relations Committee Vice Chair, Neurosurgery Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, OH “I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser […]
King Arthur or Don Quixote: What Kind of Knight are EHR Systems?
Guest Post from Deborah L. Benzil, MD, FACS, FAANS Chair, AANS/CNS Communications and Public Relations Committee Vice Chair, Neurosurgery Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, OH Electronic Health Records (EHRs) danced into the medical arena like a knight in shining armor. Promised were the magical stuff of legends, like King Arthur and Excalibur including: Legibility; Speed; Cost […]
EHR Interconnectivity Challenges Continue to Impact Patient Care
Guest post written by multiple neurosurgeons and neurosurgical residents from Stanford University Medical Center. Eric S. Sussman, MD, Neurosurgery Resident; Arjun V. Pendharkar, MD, Neurosurgery Resident; Allen L. Ho, MD, Neurosurgery Resident; Anand Veeravagu, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Assistant Professor Orthopedic Surgery and Director of Minimally Invasive NeuroSpine Surgery; and John K. Ratliff, MD, […]
Welcome to the World of Meaningless Abuse
From time-to-time on Neurosurgery Blog, you will see us cross-posting or linking to pieces from other health blogs when we believe they hit the mark on an issue. Today’s post originally appeared on the KevinMD.com, and it details the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program and how CMS has established a multitude of measures and […]
AANS and CNS Release 2015 Legislative Agenda
Today, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) released its 2015 legislative agenda, which includes action items such as abolishing the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), expanding support for graduate medical education, championing an improved Medicare reimbursement system, and alleviating the medical liability crisis. A few of our […]