Category: Analytics

Changing how medication alerts are presented in electronic medical records resulted in safer prescribing, increased efficiency and reduced workload for health care providers who placed drug orders according to a study published online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Changing how medication alerts are presented in electronic medical records resulted in safer…

The patient engagement requirements for Stage 2 of meaningful use under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) could be a struggle for providers who have been late to adopt an electronic health record (EHR), a recent study surmises. The patient engagement requirements for Stage 2 of meaningful use under the…

TriMed Technologies, a leading provider of physician based healthcare information solutions, announced that its EHR (Electronic Health Record) version 7.9, has received 2014 Edition Complete Ambulatory EHR Certification, which designates that the software is capable of supporting healthcare providers with Stage 1 and Stage 2 Meaningful Use measures required to qualify for funding under the…

Nurses looking to get the most out of healthcare IT for their patients would be wise to adopt such tools in their own everyday lives, according to Patricia Sengstack, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Bon Secours Health System, who spoke at a nursing IT summit hosted by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health…

0 The 12 projects sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality are designed to produce results by June 2014 that will be taken into consideration during the regulatory process to shape final Stage 3 objectives. The research projects will propose strategies for improving the MU objectives as well as EHR innovations that would…

0 Like most states, Arizona is in a transition period in terms of health IT initiatives. It has made great progress in EHR adoption (80 percent) and has a statewide health information exchange with a sustainable business model that includes funding from both hospitals and payers. But as federal grant funding for HIE and regional…

The following is a guest blog post by Takeshi Suganuma, Senior Director of Security at Proficio. Just meeting minimum HIPAA safeguards is not enough to keep patient data secure. This should come as no surprise when you consider that HIPAA was developed as a general framework to protect PHI for organizations ranging from small medical…

Here’s another reason why those multi-million dollar electronic health record systems might be finally paying off, in terms of lives potentially saved. According to new research, EHRs can be used to predict the early stages of sepsis, one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., responsible for killing some 210,000 people each year.…

With four different EHR systems that couldn’t speak to each other, Unity Health System in Rochester, N.Y. needed to create a longitudinal view of the patient’s record. Instead of “rip and replace” it created an integrated health information exchange (HIE) that has enabled community-wide population health. Despite its name, Unity Health System, in Rochester, N.Y.,…

My friend Shahid is chairing a healthcare IT event series called HealthIMPACT (10% discount for Healthcare Scene readers with the code IMPACT10) and the first one of the year is taking place in Houston on April 3. Given his no-nonsense attitude and low tolerance for hype, it looks like it will be a great place…