Health Technology Archives

More (EHR) Messages, More Problems?

Ishani Ganguli on new research looking at how often doctors are switching between EHRs and other work.

A new federal effort races to virtually deploy critical care providers wherever they’re needed — from COVID hospitals to floods, fires, and even war.

Early on, California was conducting just 2,000 coronavirus tests a day. Now the state is up to 60,000. How did they ramp up testing?

Sites known as preprint servers post research in mere days. That speed has advantages during a health crisis, but it also comes with risks.

Public health departments find themselves fighting the coronavirus with phones and faxes rather than the real-time data that they need.

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are often viewed as the “gold standard” of health care research. How do they work and what are their tradeoffs?