We order too many labs. I'll include myself in that. Routine panels drawn without a specific clinical question behind them, and suddenly the inbox is flooded with borderline values that are almost certainly insignificant — but still require a response. Every single one. And somewhere buried in all of that noise is the result that actually matters. A biopsy. A high-risk HPV. A final pathology report. Text-based results that don't auto-flag, don't trigger alerts, and just quietly land in a pile.
That's the problem I dig into in this week's Inefficiency Insights — why physician inboxes are set up to miss the things that matter most, and how I'm using AI right now to close the loop faster without the cognitive overhead.
