Electronic Health Records
Smoking Cessation during COVID-19: Use Trends and Opportunities
Tobacco cessation has long been a key public health aim. It can only be considered more critical now during the pandemic, as smoking has long been known to hamper immune system responses, especially with regards to pulmonary diseases and infections. With calls to quitlines down 27% in 2020, we must ask: How has COVID-19 impacted rates…
Read MoreDeath by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong
In an attempt to make health care better, safer, and cheaper, the U.S. government pursued mass conversion of paper medical charts to electronic health records. $36 billion and ten years later, a joint investigation by Fortune and Kaiser Health News argues what physicians already knew- that the digital revolution has gone wrong. Top 5 Takeaways, courtesy of NPR: Patient…
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