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Medical informatician, #health policy researcher at @RANDCorporation, and mother. Opinions mine, RT ≠ endorsements. Moving to @shirafischer@kibitz.cloud
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Factors Associated with Patient Portal Use in a Nationally Representative Sample

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By Shira Fischer, Elizabeth Roth, Dmitry Khodyakov
| RAND Corporation
Topics Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert, Sage Journals Availability: Non-RAND Year: 2026 Pages: 7 Document Number: EP-71246 This publication is part of the RAND external publication series. Many RAND studies are published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, as chapters in commercial books, or as documents published by other organizations. RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis.
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Tele-Palliative Care Offers Access to Needed Support

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By Shira Fischer, Jordan Harrison, Julia Bandini
| RAND Corporation
On first consideration, the idea of providing palliative care via video chat seems counterintuitive or even insensitive. Palliative care focuses on improving quality of life for individuals with serious illnesses. At such a delicate time, would a computer screen between patients and their doctors really suffice? Yet tele-palliative care—palliative care via telehealth— is emerging as a promising option.
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Are AI-Generated Medical Notes Really Any Worse?

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By Shira Fischer, Sarah L. Gebauer
| RAND Corporation
Once upon a time, at the end of a patient exam, doctors scribbled notes almost as an afterthought for no one but themselves. In the modern medical era, the informal note has turned into the highly orchestrated electronic health record (EHR), used for management of care across specialties and institutions, but with import for billing and malpractice lawsuits too. Primary care doctors now spend, on average, two hours a day filling out patients' electronic health records.
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