Category: EHR
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New EHR software helps manage patients with aging brain disorders
Researchers at Indiana University's Regenstrief Institute have developed new electronic health record software that provides more personalized healthcare for older patients suffering from aging brain disorders such as Alzheimer's and depression. read more
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Readers Write: Improving Patient Outcomes with Real-Time Decision Support and Analytics in the “Connected Home”
Improving Patient Outcomes with Real-Time Decision Support and Analytics in the “Connected Home” By Fauzia Khan, MD, FCAP Over the past decade, technology innovations have continually pushed the boundaries in the healthcare industry. Patient information in the hospital and ambulatory settings is now easily accessible through EHR/PHR systems and sophisticated Health Information Exchanges (HIE)
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The Health IT Tablet Shift and Some Hope for Windows 8
One of the most amazing shifts that we’ve seen in healthcare is the acceptance of the tablet form factor. I’ve been fascinated with tablets since they first came out. The idea was always great, but in implementation the idea always fell apart. Many a sales rep told me how the tablet was going to be…
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EHR and HIT News for March 20th
Today’s EHR and HIT news includes news from Advanced Data Systems on their latest Black Book Rankings, customer news from CommVault and TriMed Technologies as well as ‘go live’ news from Advantas . Black Book Rankings Names Advanced Data Systems the 2013 Leading EHR Vendor in Pain Management Black Book Rankings has named Advanced Data…
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The EHR Debate Reaches a Boiling Point
Over the course of the past few months, the debate over EHRs and the meaningful use legislation has intensified, thanks to various mainstream media articles, reports, studies and surveys, and a backlash in some quarters—particularly among some physician end-users—against current EHR adoption.
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Meaningful use can be stretch even for EHR pioneer
Vanderbilt University Medical Center was a pioneer in the use of health information technology and rolled out its homegrown StarPanel electronic health record back in 2001. But this early experience didn’t mean that meeting the meaningful-use…
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EHR and HIT News for March 19th
Today’s EHR and HIT News includes updates from new release information from Unibased Systems Architecture, an expanded customer deployment from Health Catalyst as well as an update from Merge Healthcare on the adoption of their image management and digital templating solution for orthopedics. Today’s news rounds out with a customer acquisition update from M*Modal .…
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University Of Colorado Hospital Joins CORHIO Health Information Exchange Network
CORHIO, the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization, announced today that University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) has signed an agreement to connect to its health information exchange. By connecting its Epic EHR system with CORHIO’s HIE, University Hospital is ensuring that its patients will receive more efficient follow-up care with their primary care doctors and any…
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AHRQ: Open source EHR improves care in developing nations
Global nonprofit Partners in Health (PIH) helped develop an open source electronic medical record system that is improving care in developing countries, as well as in the United States, Canada, and Europe, according to an announcement from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). read more
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Clever Trumps Sincere in HCIT Usability
There’s been a lot of progress at many levels in the last year on the usability front. At HIMSS earlier this month, there were 26 highly instructive presentations on the topic of usability. In this post, I’m going to introduce you the concept of making an explicit distinction between the end user’s mindset, and one…