Predictions for the physician of the future
Doctors and patients alike whine about the computers in the exam rooms. I tell students it won't matter how you keep your records – if they could prove to me they could manage all of the gaps in care via a paper record. The truth is, as doctors got shoehorned away from taking excellent care of just...
Technology won’t Fill the Deficit Unless Docs Bring Knowledge and Caring to the Table
As anyone who has been around PrimeCare of Novi from the beginning knows, we are no stranger to technology. When we started in 1999 we were one of the first if not thefirst, Family Medicine practices in Oakland County to go “electronic”. I could see back then that this was the way it was going to g...
The evisceration of the Patient Centered Medical Home
In 2007, the American Osteopathic Association along with the American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians, released the Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH). Central to the concept were the following princ...
We need to see the potential harm of social media
Prior to 1794, farms across the world could only pick cotton as fast as humanly possible. In the late 18th century, Eli Whitney discovered the cotton gin and a simple process done since 500 AD was instantly improved upon. This invention took 1200 years and a lot of hard labor before it was discove...