Host Dr. Nick van Terheyden aka Dr. Nick, discusses Spelunking in Healthcare Data with Benjamin Zaniello, MD MPH, CMO at PointClickCare. Their discussion includes talking to Ben, who is an Infectious Disease doctor about his struggles with finding useful patient information in the EMR, challenges of EMRs and how they have shifted doctors’ focus away from patients and towards computer screens, quoting Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” shorthand for the wealth of information in EMRs that remains inaccessible to doctors, Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. And how to make EMR data more accessible and useful to clinical team members delivering patient care.

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