Category: EHR

An “asymmetry of benefits” for providers has kept the healthcare industry from ubiquitous adoption of health IT–and electronic health records, in particular–and thus realizing its full potential, according to David Blumenthal, former national coordinator for health IT and current president of The Commonwealth Fund. read more …read more    

Now seems to be the time for physicians to evaluate their participation in the Meaningful Use program. After all, we’re on the brink of leaving the carrot-only incentive phase and entering the penalty phase for those providers who don’t meet federal requirements. read more …read more    

In an exclusive interview with FierceEMR, Micky Tripathi, founding president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, shares his insights on Meaningful Use and the looming provider conundrum. read more …read more    

For emergency room doctors at Lansing, Mich.-based Memorial Healthcare, the implementation of virtual desktops helped to dramatically improve workflow, according to CIO Frank Fear. In a recent interview with FierceHealthIT, Fear discussed challenges with the virtual desktop rollout, which included personnel needing to focus on federal initiatives like Meaningful Use Stage 2 and ICD-10. read…

Electronic health records can be an effective way to predict the onset of sepsis, a leading cause of death and hospitalization in the United States, according to a study published at the Journal of… read more …read more    

The following is a guest blog post by Todd Stansfield from The Breakaway Group (A Xerox Company). Check out all of the blog posts in the Breakaway Thinking series. I didn’t learn to change the oil in my car until I changed it. My father instructed me a dozen times, and I watched him a…

From vital signs to clinical outcomes for patients with sepsis: a machine learning basis for a clinical decision support system Researchers at the University of California Davis Health System have demonstrated that EHR data can be used to predict sepsis, and are working on an algorithm that can be incorporated into EHRs to generate alerts…

Electronic health record use continues to rise, increasing 10.7 percent from last year and bringing EHR adoption to 61 percent of physicians overall, according to a new report. read more …read more    

Today at a healthcare IT meetup I attended in Dallas I ran into a former contact at an EHR vendor. He no longer works at that EHR company and has moved on to two other companies. In our discussion we had an interesting discussion about the market. Having moved on, he’d lost touch with the…

Physicians’ views of electronic health records are still mixed despite widespread adoption, seen as good in concept but that they “significantly worsened” their professional satisfaction, according to a new RAND Health report. read more …read more