Electronic Health Records News

• Cancer Survival Predicted by AI Reading Oncologists' Notes Canadian scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that predicts cancer survival simply by reading the initial consultation notes written by the oncologist.
  Medscape Medical News, March 30, 2023
• Bias, Lack of Access Make Long COVID Worse for Patients of Color "I was in a wheelchair when the doctor at Hopkins told me I had long COVID,” Liely said. “I just broke down and cried. The validation was the biggest thing for me."
  WebMD Health News, March 29, 2023
• High EHR Burden for Some GI Providers EHR use may be particularly burdensome for physicians who specialize in inflammatory bowel disease or hepatology, as well as for nonphysician GI care providers.
  Medscape Medical News, March 29, 2023
• How Doctors Can Manage Their Daily Work Stress Being short-staffed, working through a maxed-out appointment schedule, your share of emergencies? It may seem like a physician's job stress is inevitable. Here are some ways to challenge it.
  Medscape Medical News, March 23, 2023
• A New Way to Gauge Suicide Risk? A type of artificial intelligence may offer a new way to flag suicide risk based on information in clinical notes from electronic health records, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, March 23, 2023
• Google Asks London Court to Throw Out Lawsuit Over Medical Records Google asked London's High Court on Tuesday to throw out a lawsuit brought on behalf of 1.6 million people over medical records provided to the tech giant by a British hospital trust.
  Reuters Health Information, March 21, 2023
• Less Time With Patients, More Inappropriate Prescribing Doctors were more likely to give patients medications they did not need as office visits decreased in time.
  Medscape Medical News, March 17, 2023
• ACR Urges CMS to Address Step-Therapy Policies The professional organization offered recommendations on CMS's proposed rule to streamline prior authorization practices.
  Medscape Medical News, March 14, 2023
• Buprenorphine Proves Effective for Fentanyl Users in the ED A review of electronic medical records showed similar follow-up engagement for patients with opioid use disorder who did and did not report fentanyl use.
  Medscape Medical News, March 09, 2023
• Telehealth Doctor Indicted on Healthcare Fraud, Opioid Distribution Charges  A physician who overprescribed controlled substances and submitted Medicare claims for telehealth visits she didn't conduct herself has been indicted.
  Medscape Medical News, March 09, 2023
• Rheumatologists Continue to Struggle With Pandemic-Fueled Burnout Half of respondents in a new survey reported feeling burned out or depressed, though few have sought professional help for these issues.
  Medscape Medical News, March 07, 2023
• FDA Considers Lifting Prescription Requirement for Birth Control Drugmakers would need to take extra steps to ensure safety of their products by users. For example, users may have to participate in a brief phone call or take a survey online or in a store.
  WebMD Health News, March 06, 2023
• ACC/WCC 2023 EHR Alerts Boosted MRA Prescribing in HFrEF: BETTER CARE-HF Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists are a foundational treatment for HFrEF, but often aren't prescribed. EHR alerts juiced uptake.
  MDedge News, March 05, 2023
• Docs Struggle to Keep Up With New Medical Knowledge. Here's Advice Huge numbers of new medical studies, journal articles, and guidelines are constantly being released. Physicians are overloaded with the barrage of new medical information. How can you keep up?
  Medscape Medical News, March 02, 2023
• AAAAI 2023 How to Help Pediatricians Apply Peanut Allergy Guidelines New training and EHR support tool could help busy pediatric clinicians identify high-risk infants and implement latest feeding guidelines.
  Medscape Medical News, March 02, 2023
• Empathy Meltdown? Why Burnout Busts Your Empathy Levels If empathy is the best medicine, burnout is its enemy. Here's some guidance when burnout plummets your levels of empathy.
  Medscape Medical News, March 01, 2023
• Gastroenterologists Continue to Struggle With Work-Life Balance Many gastroenterologists are finding that their happiness level and work-life balance are not bouncing back easily even as COVID-19's effects on the workplace wane, according to a new Medscape report.
  Medscape Medical News, February 28, 2023
• Time for a National Ketamine Registry, Experts Say Efforts to create a registry to track ketamine treatment has long been stymied. Amid an increase in off-label use, unregulated clinics, and relaxed DEA rules, has the field finally reached a tipping point?
  Medscape Medical News, February 15, 2023
• Room for Improvement in Barrett Esophagus Care Researchers find wide variation among individual endoscopists and centers in adherence to established quality indicators in Barrett esophagus and suggest targets for improvement.
  Medscape Medical News, February 08, 2023
• Study Finds No Association With IBD and Isotretinoin The population-based cohort study, using electronic medical record data, also evaluated the association of inflammatory bowel disease with oral tetracyclines and with acne itself.
  MDedge News, February 06, 2023