Category: Analytics
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Physician Focus, Data as King, and Real Time EHR Data
RT @RickeyGillespie: Patients & lifelong learning should be our focus instead of the medical acronym (CPT, RVU, EMR, MOC, CME, EBM) horde. — Inge Roeniger (@ingeroeniger) December 2, 2013 I’m a little torn on this tweet. While I agree that there is too much administrative overhead in healthcare that distracts from patients and lifelong learning,…
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The Ultimate Safety Net: EMR and Infusion Pump Interoperability
Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, a 381-bed facility in Minneapolis, has integrated the hospital’s infusion pump system and electronic medical record (EMR). The resulting technology, done via barcode scanning, has helped the hospital cut down on adverse events. The six rights of medication administration is a process that most nurses should be somewhat familiar…
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Automated Prediction Alert Helps Identify Patients at Risk for 30-Day Readmission
An automated prediction tool which identifies newly admitted patients who are at risk for readmission within 30 days of discharge has been successfully incorporated into the electronic health record of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. An automated prediction tool which identifies newly admitted patients who are at risk for readmission within 30 days of…
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Doc goes back to paper charts — for now
Richmond, Va., gastroenterologist Michael P. Jones, MD, is not anti-technology. He just does not like electronic medical records in their current form. He’s expecting the technology to improve, but for now, he’s opted for paper charts. read more …read more
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RSNA and Regenstrief Institute partner to standardize radiology procedure names
Under a contract awarded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, the developers of two advanced medical terminologies have begun work to harmonize and unify terms for radiology procedures. Creating standardized radiology procedure names will improve the quality, consistency and interoperability of radiology test results in electronic medical record systems and health information…
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5 usability questions when EHR shopping
External Story URL: http://www.medicalpracticeinsider.com/best-practices/top-5-inquiries-place-vendors-when-shopping-ehr …read more
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Alert fatigue, overrides remain a safety threat
Alert fatigue and overrides continue to plague clinicians and threaten patient safety, according to research published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. read more …read more
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Top 3 Health IT Trends To Be Thankful For
It has been an interesting few years in the healthcare IT (HIT) industry and no doubt it will continue to be so moving forward. Not too long ago the Federal stimulus package went into effect to support Meaningful Use (MU) and most everyone was supportive of the goals and cautiously optimistic of the goals. Optimism…
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Mobility and Malpractice: One Legal Expert Looks at the Implications of mHealth on Legal Processes
Stephen S. Wu, a partner in the Los Angeles-based law firm Cooke Kobrick & Wu, LLP, where he focuses on information privacy, security, and records management, talks about the important processes that patient care organization leaders need to engage in, in order to prevent or respond to malpractice lawsuits in the context of a healthcare…
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Researchers repurpose genetic data, electronic medical records to perform large-scale PheWAS study
Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers and co-authors from four other U.S. institutions from the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network are repurposing genetic data and electronic medical records to perform the first large-scale phenome-wide association study (PheWAS), released today in Nature Biotechnology. …read more