Category: Analytics

Implementing an electronic health record is a major undertaking at any provider organization, but is especially challenging in an environment without any IT infrastructure or an information services (IS) department. Yet that’s the goal the Access Community Health Network (ACCESS) set for itself, and met in a short timeframe, to better serve patients in underserved…

Health information exchange tools can fill in gaps in patient care and reduce unnecessary tests in hospital emergency departments, according to new research published in the journal Applied Clinical Informatics. read more …read more    

Cloud-based EHR company athenahealth will resign from the EHR Association. Its executives say it does not belong there, since it is neither an EHR company nor a software vendor. In a news release announcing its resignation from the EHR Association, athenahealth executives said: read more …read more    

(HealthTech Wire / Interview) – More and more hospitals are making use of terminology servers to better assist with processing electronic health records. The aim is not only to optimize invoicing procedures but also to improve the quality … …read more    

“Note bloat” exists, and it is imperiling patient safety. But reforming physician documentation is a question that involves leadership, training, and education of physicians and others. Anyone who knows any physicians in practice these days knows that doctors are feeling pressured on all sides, as their organizations implement and optimize electronic health records (EHRs), move…

Health care providers are leveraging the benefits of the increasing interoperability and portability of health information to improve population health outcomes. For communities that have historically experienced disparities in care, the uptake of EHRs and other forms of health IT is good news – as long as the providers and patients in these communities have…

@samuelrajan yes! I Will help! Moving forward, any emr not interfaced with @CoverMyMeds is obsolete! Pls rt! — natalie hodge (@nataliehodge) April 21, 2014 I’m not sure I agree completely with this tweet. I don’t know enough about Covery My Meds to say either way. Although, I wondered if many EMRs will integrate with Covery…

Ben Quirk and Quirk Healthcare donated over 800 hours of customization work to the Children’s Diagnostic & Treatment Center’s new Electronic Health Records system that launched on Monday, April 7, 2014. …read more    

Go where they are. In this case, “they” represents rural veterans and Medicare patients. On their way to meet them is a group of Federal partners – including ONC, telecommunication companies – known in industry parlance as “telecos” — and other stakeholders who are pushing to bring broadband to the heartland. Increasing patient access to…

The definition of population health management (PHM) differs depending on whom you talk to. But the lines are blurring between PHM and financial management, according to a blog post at Chilmark… read more …read more