Leveraging health IT to benefit patients
Richmond, Virginia
Joined July 2010
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Colin Banas retweeted
Terrific @AnnalsofIM piece by @ldowningmd @DBatesSafety @calonghurst – highlights role of excess documentation requirements (rather than pure design problems) in MD unhappiness over #EHR bit.ly/2rudeJ5 Key paragraph & figure below:
Great piece, LLMs actually making more costly recommendations than docs. ai.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/…
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Ever since COVID, patient messaging to docs have skyrocketed. Technically we're allowed (sometimes encouraged) to bill for the correspondence. nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE… piece is a fun perspective piece on both sides of the coin.
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Colin Banas retweeted
This is the way! One of the (many) reasons I love @AmyGleason47 is her ability to mobilize stakeholders across the ecosystem willing to VOLUNTARILY engage in advancing safe, secure open standards - and creating a culture of meaningful collaboration.
Join the ecosystem!
Great read.
I agreed with much of the controversial @JAMA_current piece on autonomous AI by @ZekeEmanuel @vkhosla @nealkhosla & @AbeBakerButler. Given a clean set of clinical facts, AI will often beat MDs on dx & Rx.
But there's far more to the story. My new Substack:
robertwachter.substack.com/p…
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Out of >1,350 medical AI's cleared or arrived by FDA, a total of 3 (0.2%) were tested for patient outcomes
only 34 (2.5%) linked to prospective, registered clinical trials
@PLOSDigiHealth
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Colin Banas retweeted
Epic UGM 2026 – Judy Faulkner Keynote and Cool Stuff Ahead healthcareittoday.com/2026/0…
Good.
Now that I am no longer with JAMA, I can now say that the behind the pay wall journal model is dying. The future is an open access and pre-print servers followed by discussion of findings in blogs, etc.
better to have feedback from many people on the Internet than just a few peer reviewers and the journal editor to decide what gets published and how it is interpreted.
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How Generative AI Should Transform Clinical Decision Support jamanetwork.com/journals/jam… Great perspective piece
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This is an EXCELLENT read.
My latest Substack: the irony of @ChatGPT Health's launch (it's awfully good) coming the same week as the first big lawsuit alleging a serious misdiagnosis caused by AI (in this case, GPT-4o).
What does it all mean for the future of patient-facing AI?
robertwachter.substack.com/p…
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Colin Banas retweeted
Tech + touch = all-around better patient care ❤️
Higher odds of medication adherence for heart failure patients who received text reminders was the topic of a recent episode of @TheBigUnlock podcast.
Have a listen here 🎧 hubs.la/Q04lJ5kG0
Another AMDIS literature review in the books, this time had to go solo. Pretty sure this makes 16 total talks at #AMDIS26
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Colin Banas retweeted
We’re proud to share that DrFirst and @Humana have received a Points of Light Award 🏆 from @KLASresearch for our collaboration on a program that replaces faxes with prescribing recommendations delivered directly inside clinical prescribing workflows.
hubs.la/Q04lF7YZ0
Colin Banas retweeted
The standard behind medical prior authorization hasn't fundamentally changed since 1996 🏛️
But a proposed @CMSGov rule would require payers to use the same HL7 Da Vinci standards that EHRs already have to support under HTI-4.
Read it in @hcittoday 👉 healthcareittoday.com/2026/0…
Colin Banas retweeted
June is #AlzheimersandBrainAwarenessMonth and while we now have drugs that can slow disease progression, not everyone can access them 🧠
Read more about the problem and how electronic prior authorization can help close the gap ➡️ hubs.la/Q04kF3cZ0
#ENDALZ #EndAlzheimers
Colin Banas retweeted
A provider selects the therapy and clinically, the work is done. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg 🛳️
Every sent prescription faces a hidden mass of friction that can lead to unnecessary rework. See how to clear the channel for your prescribers ⬇️
bit.ly/4uh1h73
Colin Banas retweeted
PSA: Your meds 💊 + summer fun ☀️🍹 = potential trouble 🏥
47% of Americans have had reactions to alcohol or sun exposure, only to discover later their Rx was the culprit. @Colin_Banas reminds us to read the fine print on the label.
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