Transforming American Healthcare Is The Opportunity Of A Lifetime

In this “Prescribing the Future” episode, I interview Dr. Robert Biernbaum, Chief Medical Officer of WellNow, one of the fastest-growing providers of urgent medical care, telehealth and occupational medicine services in the United States, with more than 150 centers across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania. More than 90% of WellNow Urgent Care‘s notes…

Last week we saw yet another peer-reviewed study looking at the clinical impact of ambient scribing, this time in JAMA: “Changes in Clinician Time Expenditure and Visit Quantity With Adoption of Artificial Intelligence–Powered Scribes A Multisite Study” Once again the study showed a modest reduction in time-in-EHR (16 minutes per week), and a modest increase…

Sometimes it’s hard to explain to people outside of healthcare the complexity of our workflows and the level of information density that providers have to deal with on day-to-day basis. To help illustrate, I pulled this video from content creator, Dr. Conan Liu, a hospitalist at UC Davis, that demonstrates what should be rather straightforward…

“Rural systems can’t afford to sit this [AI wave] out…. because time is against us.” On the latest episode of Prescribing the Future, Jean-Luc Neptune, MD MBA-Luc Neptune sits down with Dr. Devjit Roy, CMO and CMIO at Nathan Littauer Hospital & Nursing Home, to talk about what it actually takes to deliver care with…

When we surveyed 25 CIOs, CHIOs, CTOs, and digital transformation leaders from major health systems, I expected a wide range of perspectives on AI. What I didn’t expect from our survey of CHIME (The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives) members was how consistent the responses would be. Two numbers in particular stood out: 66.7 percent of these…

In the debut episode of Commure’s clinician-led podcast series, Prescribing the Future, Dr. Jean-Luc Neptune, MD MBA, Commure Executive Medical Director, is joined by Dr. Chethan Sathya MD MSc, pediatric surgeon and VP of Strategic Initiatives at Northwell Health, to explore how AI is reshaping care delivery through ambient documentation, intelligent intake, and clinical decision…

I recently got the good news that I passed the board recertification exam for the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). As a bit of background, ABIM is a national physician evaluation organization that certifies physicians practicing internal medicine and its subspecialties (every other specialty has its own board certification body like ABOG for OB/GYNs…

Link to original Commure Post Welcome to Commure Uncharted, a Q&A series where we sit down with healthcare industry thought leaders to discuss what the future of AI in healthcare could look like. We are excited to be joined by Dr. Jean-Luc Neptune, MD, MBA. Dr Neptune has seen plenty of tech waves hit healthcare, but…

Key conclusion of the study is “Text message reminders targeting patients who delay refilling their cardiovascular medications did NOT improve medication adherence based on pharmacy refill data or reduce clinical events at 12 months.” Authors note that “Poor medication adherence may be due to multiple factors.” https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2827429 My key takeaway from this study is that…

Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday November 21 at 1PM PT 4PM ET are regulars delivery & platform expert Vince Kuraitis (@VinceKuraitis) &  JL Neptune MD, now at Memora Health, digital health investment banker Steven Wardell (@StevenWardell); and longtime startup and corporate digital health exec Adam Kaufman (@adkaufman) who also writes the Bearing.on…