How Medical Algorithms Can Help with End of Life Issues
John Svirbely, MD2022-01-26T20:55:54+08:00Recently the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released new CPT codes (99497, 99498) to encourage advance care planning [...]
10 Basic Rules for Clinical Algorithm Development
John Svirbely, MD2017-03-07T10:55:51+08:00Keeping an Eye on the Prize: 10 Basic Rules for Clinical Algorithm Development While at the HIMSS16 conference last week in [...]
Can Medical Algorithms Help to Reduce Telemedicine Liability?
John Svirbely, MD2022-01-26T23:33:07+08:00Telemedicine has come a long way over the past 20 years. Modern technology has made it accessible to an [...]
The Ubiquity of Algorithms in Medicine
John Svirbely, MD2016-12-15T09:27:18+08:00As algorithms in medicine become more widely accepted--as they now are in other disciplines--they will eventually become ubiquitous. The [...]
How Medical Algorithms Are Used in Clinical Trial Design
John Svirbely, MD2022-01-27T14:28:15+08:00Clinical trials play an important role in evidence-based medicine. It is necessary to know how a therapy performs under [...]
Embracing Disruptive Information Technologies in Healthcare
John Svirbely, MD2016-12-15T09:58:15+08:00Some aspects of medicine have not changed very much over the centuries. As new decision support systems become available [...]
Improving Diagnosis in Healthcare with Automated Medical Algorithms
John Svirbely, MD2016-12-15T09:32:11+08:00In September, 2015, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report titled Improving Diagnosis in Health Care. This report [...]
Why MedalPacks? Automated Medical Calculator Collections
John Svirbely, MD2016-12-15T10:04:49+08:00A medical algorithm (medical calculator) that is used by itself can solve a specific problem. However, medical algorithms must [...]
Getting a Handle on Big Data with Medical Algorithms
John Svirbely, MD2016-12-15T09:33:03+08:00Big data is a hot topic now, as massive amounts of data are being collected on everyone. People are [...]
9 Algorithms for Travel Health Medicine
John Svirbely, MD2015-07-24T08:04:51+08:00This time of year finds many of us traveling to far-off destinations. We usually will plan the trip using [...]
How Automated Medical Algorithms Can Improve Patient Safety
John Svirbely, MD2016-12-15T09:36:39+08:00GA Miller studied the limits of human cognition. He found that the number of discrete items that a person [...]
Congestive Chart Failure and Electronic Health Record Systems
John Svirbely, MD2016-12-15T10:05:31+08:00Years ago you could find patient charts on the oncology or transplant service that were a foot thick or [...]
Can Algorithms Help with Medical Patient Education?
John Svirbely, MD2016-12-15T10:16:46+08:00We’re entering a new world of patient-centric healthcare, one in which patients can be better informed, collect endless data [...]
Risks to Patient Safety: Calculating Algorithms by Hand
John Svirbely, MD2016-12-15T09:47:50+08:00While medical algorithms can be valuable decision support tools, calculating them by hand can bite you. With hand calculations, [...]
Can We Really Trust Accountable Care Organization Models (ACOs)?
John Svirbely, MD2015-07-16T20:10:33+08:00Accountable Care Organization models (ACO) are mandated to reform healthcare and to change the way it is delivered. To [...]