Epocrates Insights
Summary: Epocrates Insights: An interview series from Epocrates with physicians and other experts discussing trends and issues in healthcare and information technology.
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Dr. Luo shares his views on upcoming trends in healthcare and healthcare IT at a gathering of healthcare leaders in New York City hosted by Epocrates
For the second consecutive year, Epocrates surveyed 1,000 medical students about the state of healthcare, the future role of information technology in medicine and issues impacting their profession. Two of the survey respondents, Andrew Nerlinger, a new emergency medicine resident at UCLA, and Bill Lievens, a new resident at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, join us to discuss the survey and share their opinions.
Depression is a painful and often debilitating disease that affects nearly everyone directly or indirectly. But how do today's physicians view the disease? In a recent survey by Epocrates, more than 500 clinicians shared their opinions on trends in diagnosis, the role gender plays, risk factors and personal experiences with depression. UCLA psychiatrist Dr. John Luo discusses depression and provides expert commentary on some of the intriguing survey results.
Dr. Jeffrey Rothschild, MPH, Harvard Medical School and Dr. Edward Fang, Editor-in-Chief, Clinical Applications for Epocrates, will share findings from a Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital study on the perceived benefits of mobile clinical references among more than 1,500 physicians. The study has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. In light of recent reports that millions of medical errors are preventable, this study evaluates how physicians believe handheld technology helps avoid these errors and improves the quality of care a patient receives. Study highlights include: 1) Handheld references are reported to help prevent adverse drug interactions-More than 60 percent of participants, across multiple specialties, reported avoiding three or more adverse drug events in a month with the use of medical reference applications. 2) Handheld references improve the quality of care-Data revealed that physicians perceived drug interaction tools, drug references and therapeutic treatment guidelines to be the most beneficial to improving the quality of care. On average, physicians reported using drug references more than six times per day, and nearly 40 percent reported using them during more than half of patient encounters. 3) Technology brings breaking news and increased patient confidence-Physicians reported that receiving public health warnings, new immunization guidelines or drug alert warnings on their handhelds positively impacted patient care by keeping them informed at the point of care. As an additional benefit, patients were perceived to have favorable attitudes about handheld usage during consultations.