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Alert Fatigue Is a Patient Safety Crisis — Here's What We Can Do About It
Maria Santos, PharmD, BCPS · Apr 25, 2026
Clinicians override 90%+ of drug interaction alerts. That's not a people problem — it's a design problem. A clinical pharmacist explains what meaningful CDS looks like.
From Bedside to Keyboard: A Nurse's Guide to Breaking Into Health IT
David Kim, RN, CPHIMS · Apr 23, 2026
After 10 years in the ED, I made the jump to health IT. Here's what I wish someone had told me about the transition — the good, the hard, and the surprisingly transferable skills.
I've Led Three EHR Implementations. Here Are the Mistakes Everyone Makes.
James Okonkwo, MD, CMIO · Apr 21, 2026
EHR implementations fail for the same reasons every time — and those reasons are rarely technical. A CMIO shares the patterns he's seen across three go-lives.
FHIR Explained: What Clinicians Actually Need to Know About Interoperability
David Kim, RN, CPHIMS · Apr 19, 2026
You've heard FHIR mentioned in every health IT meeting for the last five years. Here's what it actually means for the clinicians and analysts who work with health data every day.
AI-Generated Clinical Notes: Promise, Peril, and What We're Getting Wrong
James Okonkwo, MD, CMIO · Apr 17, 2026
Ambient AI scribes promise to eliminate documentation burden. But the clinician is still responsible for every word in that note — and that creates new risks we're not talking about enough.
The Hidden Tax: How Documentation Burden Is Driving Nurses Out of the Profession
Rachel Thompson, DNP, NI-BC · Apr 15, 2026
Nurses spend up to 40% of their shift documenting. Much of that documentation serves compliance and billing — not patient care. A nursing informaticist examines what we can cut and what we can't.
What Does a Clinical Informaticist Actually Do All Day?
Sarah Chen, RN, MSN · Apr 12, 2026
The job title is vague and the work is invisible until something breaks. A clinical informaticist breaks down what the role actually looks like on a typical Tuesday.
How We Reduced Sepsis Mortality by 18% With Better Clinical Decision Support
Sarah Chen, RN, MSN · Apr 9, 2026
Our hospital built a sepsis screening tool that actually changed outcomes — not by adding more alerts, but by embedding intelligence into the workflow nurses were already using.
The Five Medication Safety Gaps Your EHR Isn't Catching
Maria Santos, PharmD, BCPS · Apr 6, 2026
CPOE systems catch the obvious interactions. But the most dangerous medication errors happen in the gaps between what the system checks and what it doesn't.
What Healthcare IT Leaders Get Wrong About Clinical Adoption
Clinical to Code Editorial Team, RN, MSN · Apr 5, 2026
Technology implementations fail not because the technology is bad, but because adoption strategies ignore how clinicians actually work. Here is what needs to change.
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