How Medical Algorithms Can Improve Doctor Patient Communication
Chad Rudnick, MD2025-02-22T12:45:48+08:00I saw it every day while in medical school and residency; attending physicians cowered behind a computer screen, attempting [...]
Why Don’t Physicians Use Healthcare Algorithms?
John Svirbely, MD2025-02-22T12:49:54+08:00Algorithms are used in many fields, such as finance, engineering, and aviation. They are used in healthcare, but the [...]
Case Study: Surgical Site Infection: Methods of Prevention & Tools for Predicting Risk
John Svirbely, MD2025-02-22T12:50:10+08:00Medical History A 55-year-old white male has degenerative arthritis of the knees. 10 months ago, the patient underwent total [...]
Early Warning Signs Stroke
John Svirbely, MD2025-02-22T12:50:20+08:00According to the Internet Stroke Center each year, 15 million strokes occur around the world, with almost 800,000 in [...]
Using Medical Algorithms as Clinical Prediction Tools
Chad Rudnick, MD2025-02-22T12:56:43+08:00Advances in medicine bring new imaging, technologies, medications, and the desire to have better prediction models for clinical outcomes. [...]
Precision Medicine Initiative & Medical Algorithms: Looking to the Future
Chad Rudnick, MD2025-02-22T12:53:37+08:00First receiving mention a few years ago, precision medicine, has entered the spotlight with a request for $215 million [...]
Medical Calculator App: Top 5 Reasons to Use
John Svirbely, MD2025-02-22T12:54:08+08:001. Instant access to 5000 useful medical calculators covering 40 medical specialties. 2. Most comprehensive reference tool for [...]
How to Practice Evidence Based Healthcare in Clinical Settings
Chad Rudnick, MD2025-02-22T13:01:02+08:00As physicians, we recognize the importance of evidence based healthcare. Having evidence to back up our decisions strengthens our assessments [...]
Your Invitation to the Open Marriage of FHIR, BPM+ Health and Medical Algorithms
John Svirbely, MD2025-02-22T12:36:09+08:00Your Invitation to the Open Marriage of FHIR, BPM+ Health and Medical Algorithms While open relationships can be problematic, [...]
9 Factors That Can Cause Clinical Algorithm Failure
John Svirbely, MD2025-02-22T12:50:53+08:00Although an entomologist can see a certain beauty in the most annoying insect, there is nothing attractive about a [...]
Just in Time Medical Knowledge in a Disposable Society
John Svirbely, MD2025-02-22T12:56:01+08:00Historically, medical knowledge has been hard to come by, taking years of study. While this knowledge may be available [...]
How to Use Medical Algorithms During Global Disease Outbreaks
Chad Rudnick, MD2025-02-22T12:51:13+08:00One of the most fearful events in medicine and population health is an infectious disease outbreak. From the recent [...]
Population Health Strategies, Medical Algorithms, and You
John Svirbely, MD2025-02-22T12:48:09+08:00Is population health the future of healthcare? Physicians are told population health strategies will solve many of our current [...]
What is a Medical Algorithm? Medical Algorithm Definition
John Svirbely, MD2025-02-22T12:56:12+08:00"Algorithm" is a term that has a long and rich history in mathematics. However, it is a term that [...]
How Physicians Can Expand Their Clinical Knowledge Base
Chad Rudnick, MD2025-02-22T12:56:21+08:00Starting in medical school, students must learn how to quickly and successfully search through thousands of easily accessible research [...]
Your Knowledge, the Right Tool, a Better Outcome…How Medical Treatment Algorithms are Shaping Modern Physicians
Chad Rudnick, MD2025-02-22T12:38:22+08:00Remember back in the prehistoric days before the Internet? Before Facebook, before Google, before smartphones? When you needed to [...]
Coping with Healthcare Information Overload
John Svirbely, MD2025-02-22T13:01:21+08:00What did you do the last time you were stopped at a railroad crossing? Did you even look at [...]
Using Algorithms to Assist With Medical Research Studies
Chad Rudnick, MD2025-02-22T12:56:30+08:00Medical research is one of the main reasons why the medical profession as a whole is able to continually [...]
15 Calculators to Help with Medication Non Compliance
John Svirbely, MD2025-02-22T12:41:55+08:00Medication non compliance (nonadherence) with a physician's therapeutic plan is a major problem in healthcare. It can lead to [...]
Diagnosing Rare Diseases Disorders with Medical Algorithms
Chad Rudnick, MD2025-02-22T12:49:35+08:00Primary care physicians often have the unique task of deciding whether a patient who presents with an uncommon constellation [...]
Worker Safety and Health During Disaster Recovery
John Svirbely, MD2022-01-17T14:41:07+08:00As people try to rebuild their lives after disasters such as Hurricane Harvey, Irma or Martha and the recent [...]
Medical Automation…Everything But the Squeal
John Svirbely, MD2022-01-18T14:06:57+08:00Farmers tend to be frugal. When they slaughter an animal there is very little that goes to waste. Gustavus [...]
Online Medical Calculators and Pokemon Go… A Perfect Catch
Chad Rudnick, MD2022-01-25T21:11:55+08:00Depending on your age, you may or may not remember the original Pokemon craze in the United States many [...]
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 [...]
Utilizing Medical Calculators to Think Like A Doctor
Chad Rudnick, MD2022-01-27T00:32:27+08:00Summary and response to the New York Times Well article: Think Like A Doctor: Thinner We present a succinct [...]
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 [...]
Utilizing Medical Algorithms to Think Like A Doctor: Scurvy Case
Chad Rudnick, MD2022-01-27T13:50:37+08:00Summary and response to the New York Times Well article: Think Like A Doctor: Limping Along We present a [...]
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 [...]
7 Medical Algorithms to Use with Apple ResearchKit Apps
Chad Rudnick, MD2016-12-15T09:33:53+08:00“In March, 2015, Apple released an open source software framework designed for medical and health research, helping doctors and [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Medical Tools: How to Eliminate Unnecessary Tests
Chad Rudnick, MD2016-12-15T10:08:42+08:00Nearly every physician who has worked in an emergency department will concur with the fact that MRI or CT [...]