- In the CXO Talks podcast, PharmaShots engaged in a riveting dialogue exchange with Colin Banas, Chief Medical Officer at DrFirst. Colin highlights the evolution of DrFirst from becoming a leader in the e-prescribing space to an end-to-end medication management company
- Colin talks about its collaborators, Wise Hospice Options, achieving a new milestone by reducing the prescription time from 20 seconds to 2 seconds, and Elsevier’s ClinicalKey AI, an AI-powered clinical decision support solution
- Colin believes that the implementation of intelligent automation (AI and ML) will be crucial to improving patient satisfaction and adherence
About the Author:
Colin Banas
Colin is an Internal Medicine Hospitalist and former Chief Medical Information Officer for VCU Health System in Richmond, Virginia. He has testified before the U.S. Senate and the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) on health IT and the Meaningful Use program, and is a former Health IT Fellow for the ONC. His interests center on the role of big data and analytics on patient outcomes and on novel forms of clinical decision support that are outside the realm of traditional rules and alerts, including real-time dashboarding and intuitive usability designs. He also helped spearhead the VCU effort to participate in the Open Notes initiative, where patients have access to their clinical documentation in real time.
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