Last week I was watching CAEP National Grand Rounds and caught a segment by Dr. Doug Chisholm titled "Automating the Boring Stuff: Lessons from Software Development". He gave a really great presentation, as did all of the other presenters, and I highly recommend you check it out.

His talk included some tips to use ...

We focus on reducing and eliminating the technology and process factors that contribute to physician burnout - or moral injury. It occurred to me today that we can be more generous with our knowledge and potentially help more people by sharing some ideas about processes.

One of our software tools, DocLauncher, speeds up communication/information finding, and reduces stress and ...

I have a question and no answer today: How do we resolve the tension between efficiency and innovation in medicine? Innovation is needed. I don’t know who would argue that things do not need to change and improve. But innovation is messy and wasteful. It is challenging to convince people in medicine to take measured risks, based on demonstrated results and proof. How does anyone manage to ...

Medical and healthcare institutions are always looking to build their staff with the best people for the job. Understandably, you make the most investment into clinical staff because clinical care comprises your core competency. They make the case for patients to trust your institution. But your clinical staff needs strong support staff also, increasingly in your information technology ...

Scheduling is a complicated process, especially in graduate medical education. Residents need to complete their requirements in different disciplines, while institutional staffing needs and patient needs must also be considered. In our experience, scheduling in GME, we have seen an approach called X+Y that can be very beneficial in programs with ambulatory training. This format has been in ...