Category: EHR

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT announced this week that it has issued nine guides to help healthcare organizations assess the safety of electronic health records and to use them effectively. read more …read more

I usually take electronic health record research at face value. These are generally scientific endeavors, often conducted by esteemed institutions or academicians who are testing the effectiveness of such tools, assessing their impact on satisfaction and productivity, or determining their role in research. So it’s disconcerting to read not one, but two studies this week…

Surgical Information Systems Acquires Healthcare Software Leader AmkaiSolutions Surgical Information Systems, a perioperative specialty EHR vendor, acquires AmkaiSolutions, an ambulatory EHR vendor that provides software for ambulatory surgery centers. The partnership extends SIS’s reach into the ambulatory space within its niche EHR market segment. Allscripts rises after giving 2014-16 outlook Allscripts reports that it expects…

Scribes can help physicians input data into electronic health records, freeing the doctor to pay full attention to their patients, according to an article in the New York Times. There are about 10,000 scribes working in hospitals and medical practices in the U.S., according to the article, and demand is growing. read more …read more

According to Patrick Soon-Shiong, M.D., billionaire and chief executive officer of healthcare IT company NantHealth, the Meaningful Use incentive program was born out of a flawed view of the healthcare industry. read more …read more

The following is a guest blog post by Jennifer Bergeron, Learning and Development Manager at The Breakaway Group (A Xerox Company). Check out all of the blog posts in the Breakaway Thinking series. The most important – and most vulnerable – connection between strategy and execution is the actual performance of people. ~ Charles Fred,…

The SAFER Guides are designed to help healthcare organizations conduct self-assessments to optimize the safety and safe use of electronic health records (EHRs) in the following areas: High Priority Practices, Organizational Responsibilities, Contingency Planning, System Configuration, System Interfaces, Patient Identification, Computerized Provider Order Entry with Decision Support, Test Results Reporting and Follow-Up, Clinician Communication. The…

I recently wrote that it’s not clear whether patient portals do much to improve health care. Now a new study suggests they help in at least one area: medication adherence. The research involved diabetic patients who were using cholesterol-lowering statin drugs and had registered for online portal access. Among those who started using the system’s…

Determining medical students’ individual beliefs about the’ usefulness and usability of electronic health records can enable medical schools to better tailor EHR training and improve clinicians’ acceptance of the systems, according to a new study in the AHIMA Foundation’s Perspectives in Health Information Management. read more …read more

In its continuing efforts to support health information exchange, the Office of the National Coordinator has published new resources to help stakeholders and others understand the topic. read more …read more