The Future of Physician – Patient Interaction

I’m hearing more and more people cry foul about the physician patient interaction trend. The obvious complaint is that more and more physicians are spending time in the exam room focused on the computer as opposed to the patient. There are a number of people doing really interesting things to try and solve this problem. In the following video Dr. Nick van Terheyden, CMIO of Nuance, discusses one view of how the future physician – patient interaction will happen.

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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