Journal of the American Medical Association and
Medical Care aims to use electronic health record data to analyze how clinicians spend their time.
The
JAMA study, which compared metadata of clinicians in the United States with those in Canada, Northern Europe, Western Europe, the Middle East and Oceania, found that U.S. clinicians spent an average of 90 minutes a day actively using the EHR – compared with non-U.S. clinicians, who spent about an hour a day in their EHRs.
Meanwhile, the
Medical Care study analyzed primary care exam lengths using EHR time stamps, finding that the average exam time lasted 1.2 minutes longer than scheduled.
A Harvard Medical School team published a letter in the
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association this week warning of the substantial information security concerns around telehealth.
The authors, led by organizational cybersecurity researcher Mohammad S. Jalali, note that the uptick in telemedicine services has undoubtedly made healthcare more accessible – but that the relaxation in regulations about virtual care combined with a heightened threat landscape can spell trouble. As we continue this shift to telemedicine, new issues and risks unravel that need to be addressed, particularly in regard to information security and privacy, and ongoing work is needed to ensure that our technology infrastructure provides an environment for safe and effective care delivery, they wrote.
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Toward the tail end of pre-pandemic 2019, Mayo Clinic Chief Information Officer Cris Ross stood on a stage in California and declared, This artificial intelligence stuff is real.
Indeed, while some may argue that AI and machine learning might have been harnessed better during the early days of COVID-19, and while the risk of algorithmic bias is very real, there s little question that artificial intelligence, evolving and maturing by the day for an array of use cases across healthcare.
Here are the most-read stories about AI during this most unusual year.
UK to use AI for COVID-19 vaccine side effects. On a day when vaccines, developed in record time, first begin to be administered in the U.S., it s worth remembering AI s crucial role in helping the world get to this hopefully pivotal moment.