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