Hospitals Prescribe Big Data to Track Doctors at Work

Tracking doctors’ performance is "absolutely key" to this future, he says. Wide variation in practices among doctors is "extraordinarily costly," he says. "Do we control physicians? We don’t try to," he says. "We just try to use process and information to get them to that same point."

"All of this stuff needs to happen, and will happen," Dr. Baker promised.

"You can’t piecemeal it," Dr. Kim warned. "It can’t be a little bit here, a little bit there."

As the doctors began to drift back to work, Dr. Baker thanked them. "My goal is to make a believer of Dr. Warren!" she said cheerfully.

Today, Dr. Warren says his February comments still represent "the way I continue to feel at this time." But Dr. Kim says the data program has been well-received overall at the clinic. He said he recently hired a new staffer, with another planned, to help doctors with tasks including tracking when patients are due for tests.

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ANNA WILDE MATHEWS

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