“While someday the computerization of medicine will surely be that long-awaited “disruptive innovation,” today it’s often just plain disruptive: of the doctor-patient relationship, of clinicians’ professional interactions and work flow, and of the way we measure and try to improve… — Robert Wachter Copy Share Image
“All the technology in the world is not going to help you if it’s not intuitive and if the end user can’t use it.” — Robert Wachter Copy Share
“Emergency department physicians spent 44 percent of their time entering data into electronic medical records, clicking up to 4,000 times during a 10-hour shift.… — Robert Wachter Copy Share
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. —Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics,… — Robert Wachter Copy Share
“We have Dragon [dictation software],” one primary care doctor said, “which you have to be careful of, because I just [dictated] ‘Patient’s prostate is… — Robert Wachter Copy Share
“Mistakes, on the other hand, result from incorrect choices. Rather than blundering into them while we are distracted, we usually make mistakes because of… — Robert Wachter Copy Share
“In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. —Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford (1717–1797)” — Robert Wachter Copy Share
“It shouldn’t surprise you, then, that notes written by internists read like novellas (ones in which we’re paid by the word), while a colleague… — Robert Wachter Copy Share
“There’s a saying in aviation that the airplane of the future will no longer have two humans in the cockpit. Instead, there will be… — Robert Wachter Copy Share
“As Stravinsky says, art is nothing more than placing limits and working against them rigorously … and if we refuse to place them …… — Robert Wachter Copy Share
“Informatics is the field of medicine that concerns itself with “the interactions among and between humans and information tools and systems.” In 2013, it… — Robert Wachter Copy Share
“Starting now and lasting until forever, your health and healthcare will be determined, to a remarkable and somewhat disquieting degree, by how well the… — Robert Wachter Copy Share
“You’ve probably played that parlor game in which you fantasize about what it would be like to have a drink with one of the… — Robert Wachter Copy Share
“While someday the computerization of medicine will surely be that long-awaited “disruptive innovation,” today it’s often just plain disruptive: of the doctor-patient relationship, of… — Robert Wachter Copy Share
“The modern patient safety movement replaces “the blame and shame game” with an approach known as systems thinking. This paradigm acknowledges the human condition—namely,… — Robert Wachter Copy Share
“James Reason reminds us, “Errors are largely unintentional. It is very difficult for management to control what people did not intend to do in… — Robert Wachter Copy Share
