I was very pleased this year to participate on two panels at SAEM in Dallas.  On Thursday, I joined Michelle Lin and (remotely) Rob Coo...

This month, EPMonthly ran an article about the cost of poorly-designed EHR on ED operations . The EPMonthly authors - Augustine and Holste...

I'm honored to be presenting this afternoon at the New York Emergency Medicine Health Policy Assembly, organized by the Emergency Depart...

This Monday at ACEP's Scientific Assembly I'm presenting at the Learning Lounge on the topic of smartphone apps for physical exam a...

Welcome, readers from Clinical Decision Making . You've got a PowerPoint version of my talk on your USB drives; here's the link to t...

There's a research paper making the rounds in the press and on social media , about Facebook usage in an emergency department. It...

I've pretty much kept my distance from the right-wing noise machine. They don't often talk about my professional interests, and when...

While I've been focusing on peer-reviewed writing these days (though what could be more peer-reviewed than a blog?) you can see some of ...

We hear it all the time: one of the benefits of EHR will be to get a handle on physician practice variation . Between states, and even withi...

No one chooses emergency medicine for continuity of care. It's undoubtedly rewarding for most doctors to help manage patients through gr...

Describe electronic clinical decision support to someone outside of healthcare. They'll probably start conjuring images of  Watson or...

I had an idea for an absurd indie comic strip about Corrective Action Plans - those in-depth multi-departmental administrative remedies that...

I never thought I'd embrace dictation. For emergency physicians, dictation varies department to department. Some require it, some make...

I always liked the idea of the original Ambient Orb -- a device that just sits there, but changes color based on metrics of interest to you...

Members of the social media committee spoke today at SAEM about, well, online social networking and the emergency physician. Our presentatio...

I love being at an academic institution for many reasons. One of which is that the residents keep me on my toes -- they've read the lat...

I've noticed more patients complain of gout recently -- maybe it's a sign the economy is improving (gout has long been considered a ...