Data visualization can help people quickly understand and use data that would otherwise take a long time to interpret. Word cloud is one visualization technique that communicates the most important words that are relevant to a subject. In a cloud, the size of a word represents its frequency in the source data or its relative importance to the subject.

Word clouds could be used in patient ...

Time is money. With the implementation of EHRs, a doctor's workflow has changed drastically since the time of paper records. Doctors are expected to maintain the same volume of patients while navigating and logging more information than ever in a cumbersome EHR system. Can we quantify the wasting of time among the healthcare front lines?

Before anything happens in the EHR, you have to log ...

In my last post, I talked about a bill I received from a lab in error. The mistake was resolved, but not without some effort on my part. According to an article in Huffpo one researcher found that 30-40 percent of bills have mistakes and another researcher found the occurrence to ...

Last night I had a dream that I was at the hospital and they were short on doctors. It was a weird one with a couple random high school buddies I haven’t talked to in many years. One of my friends, who actually is a clinical psychologist in real life, threw me a white coat and said “It’s time for you to learn.” After a few minutes of being convinced that I can learn all of med school in a few ...

Pagers, laptops, desktop computers, rolling mobile desktops, printed sheets, handwritten notes, flash cards…. It really boggles the mind how anything is kept straight in the massive constant flow of information and communication around a 770 bed hospital serving almost 30,000 inpatients per year between 550 physicians.

We had the opportunity to watch a residency program in action. From ...