Healthcare Decision-Making
Healthcare Decision-Making
Designing Safer and Smarter Healthcare
We develop tactics for encouraging safer prescribing practices and examine what motivates patients’ health and financial choices.
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Featured Article
Want Safer Prescribing? Provide Doctors With a Plan for Helping Patients in Pain
Physicians who are notified that a patient has died of a drug overdose are more judicious in issuing controlled substances if the notification includes a plan for what to do during subsequent patient visits.
Experts:
Jason Doctor, Emily Stewart
Featured Research
Why Doctors Using ChatGPT Are Unknowingly Violating HIPAA
With the rise of artificial intelligence, clinicians are turning to chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT to organize notes, produce medical records or write letters to health insurers. But clinicians deploying this new technology may be violating health privacy laws.
Featured Data
About two-thirds of adults do not know the upper thresholds for normal or healthy blood pressure, but most express confidence in their understanding of blood pressure numbers, Schaeffer research found. This false sense of confidence may undermine intentions to seek care.
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