In closing the annual American Medical Informatics Association conference in San Francisco Wednesday, Dr. Robert Wachter, chief hospitalist and chief of the medical service at nearby UCSF Medical ...

LAS VEGAS—Robert Wachter, M.D., a healthcare leader who has been critical of health IT's shortcomings, believes the industry is still behind when it comes to effectively implementing new tools. But he ...

University of San Francisco School of Medicine named Robert Wachter, MD, the new chair of its department of medicine. Dr. Wachter already holds the Lynne and Marc Benioff Endowed Chair in Hospital ...

Robert Wachter, MD, center, confers with colleagues Andrew Auerbach, MD, and Arpana Vidyarthi, MD, about an ICU patient at the UCSF Medical Center. UC San Francisco’s Robert Wachter, MD, has been ...

LAS VEGAS – Robert Wachter, MD, is not nearly as grumpy as he used to be about EHRs. At least that's what he told the standing-room-only crowd at the CHIME CIO Forum at HIMSS18 on Monday. Wachter is ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Dr. Robert Wachter about the latest round of FDA approved COVID boosters and how people should think about COVID and its risk as the virus becomes endemic. President ...

"The interviews really brought it to life; it was fun to do," says Robert Wachter, MD, describing the 90 or so people, from across the healthcare industry and beyond, he spoke with for his probing and ...

Although benchmarking in healthcare started with good intentions, the measurement of all processes has become more of a burden than a tool to improve processes and outcomes. Too much emphasis is ...

Robert Wachter, MD, author of the New York Times bestselling book The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age, has been tapped by the United Kingdom to help chart ...