CHICAGO--Clinicians must be careful not to bring their own biases to their patient care, said David A. Kessler, MD, former FDA Commissioner, speaking during a question-and-answer session on moving evidence-based medicine from theory to practice at the CMIO Leadership Forum: Transforming Healthcare through Evidence-Based Medicine.

CHICAGO—“We need shared decision making but it’s got to be led by clinicians,” said Margaret Holmes-Rovner, PhD, professor at the Health Services Research Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine in East Lansing, speaking Oct. 4 at the CMIO Leadership Forum: Transforming Healthcare through Evidence-Based Medicine.

CHICAGO—The concepts of evidence-based medicine are being transformed as the healthcare system is being transformed, said Peter C. Wyer, MD, chair of the section on evidence-based healthcare at the New York Academy of Medicine and Columbia University Medical Center, speaking Oct. 4 at the CMIO Leadership Forum: Transforming Healthcare through Evidence-Based Medicine.

CHICAGO—While patients may want to communicate via emails and SMS text phone messages with their physicians, mobile access to patient portals may provide a less liable, more recordable alternative, according to an Oct. 4 panel at the CMIO Summit on Transforming Healthcare through Evidence-Based Medicine.

CHICAGO—While changes to the overall U.S. healthcare system and payment models are inevitable, a key component to these changes is communicating proper goals and expectations to providers and patients, said Carolyn M. Clancy, MD, director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, on Oct. 4 at the CMIO Summit on Transforming Healthcare through Evidence-Based Medicine.

CHICAGO—Actively engaging physicians to use evidence-based medicine requires providing them with actionable information that is usable in practice, according to Sameer Badlani, MD, CMIO at the University of Chicago, during a Oct. 4 presentation at the CMIO Leadership Summit on Transforming Healthcare through Evidence-Based Medicine.

CHICAGO—This is “a heady and hectic time” for healthcare, said Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, national coordinator of health IT, speaking at the CMIO Summit on Transforming Healthcare through Evidence-Based Medicine.