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Daniel Essin, MA, MD

Daniel Essin, MA, MD, FAAP, FCCP, has been a programmer since 1967 and earned his MD in 1974. He has worked at the Los Angeles County and USC Medical Center. His main research interests include electronic medical records and inferential methods of achieving security and confidentiality in healthcare systems.

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Why EHRs are Data Systems, Not Information Systems

Blog | May 20, 2013 | EHR, Health IT

By Daniel Essin, MA, MD

Physicians have medical information in their mind, but the EHR cannot access it, so the unhappy task of extracting data from information falls on providers.

You Can't Teach an Old EHR New Tricks

Blog | May 13, 2013 | EHR, Health IT, Operations, Physician Productivity

By Daniel Essin, MA, MD

If your goal is to be the best doctor you can be, limit your personal interaction with the EHR to only those things that serve that goal.

Why EHRs Fail

Blog | May 06, 2013 | EHR, Health IT

By Daniel Essin, MA, MD

Some EHRs succeed in medical practices while others fail. There may be a root cause for the failure, but the solution is not easily embraced.

What Tablets Can Teach Us about EHR Usability

Blog | April 29, 2013 | EHR, Health IT, Operations

By Daniel Essin, MA, MD

Usability remains a matter of personal preference, so the debate over the best tablet can shed light on how we determine the best EHR system for our own use.

Lack of Good Paradigms and Experts Combine to Slow EHR Evolution

Blog | April 22, 2013 | EHR, Health IT

By Daniel Essin, MA, MD

Einstein was right when it came to EHRs: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

EHR Can't Make Healthcare a Production Line

Blog | April 15, 2013 | EHR, Health IT, Patients, Physician Productivity

By Daniel Essin, MA, MD

The goal of medicine is to heal people, not to mass-produce them.

EHR Rules Compete With Medicine's Grassroots Nature

Blog | April 01, 2013 | EHR, Health IT, Patients, Physician Productivity

By Daniel Essin, MA, MD

Each physician must decide whether to comply with the spirit, or merely the letter, of the rules of EHR use. That is a grassroots decision.

The Computerization of the Dictionary: What EHRs Can Learn

Blog | March 25, 2013 | EHR, Health IT

By Daniel Essin, MA, MD

Many of today's EHRs have inherited both strengths and weaknesses of early design concepts, so perhaps it is time for a new role model.

EHRs in the Future When All of Medicine is Understood

Blog | March 18, 2013 | EHR, Health IT, Operations, Physician Productivity

By Daniel Essin, MA, MD

Until the day when medicine if fully understood, today's EHRs will struggle to make sense out of data that is ambiguous and imprecise.

What Healthcare, Health IT Can Learn from Amazon.com

Blog | March 11, 2013 | EHR, Health IT, Operations

By Daniel Essin, MA, MD

Physicians looking for lower healthcare costs and CPOE need only turn to Amazon for the blueprint to success.

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