Category: EHR

As was announced by Microsoft a long time ago, support for Windows XP is ending on April 8, 2014. For most of us, we don’t think this is a big deal and are asking, “Do people still use Windows XP?” However, IT support people in healthcare realize the answer to that question is yes, and…

By any measure, 2014, wasn’t easy on the electronic health record front. It heralded in Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use program, which brought grief to providers who struggled to meet the more… read more …read more      

Customizing electronic health records to focus on quality and safety initiatives is complex and time-consuming, as Baylor Scott & White Health found in developing EHR fields to track evidence-based care processes to combat delirium in the ICU. read more …read more      

While the use of scribes may be of value to physicians and hospitals in the short term, it could stifle technological improvements to electronic health records and put patients at risk, according to a viewpoint published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. read more …read more      

There’s been a lot of activity this past year concerning electronic health records, and many disagreements and points of view. Three topics in 2014 stand out as particularly troublesome and point to bigger issues that remain unresolved. read more …read more      

Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.) is continuing to urge for a shorter reporting period for eligible professionals and eligible hospitals to attest to Meaningful Use–and now has the backing of 28 of her colleagues. read more …read more      

Electronic health records need to be redesigned to focus more on a hospital’s business of treating patients, not its corporate strategy to increase the business units’ value, according to a recent post to the Health Affairs blog. read more …read more      

The use of electronic health records could be improved in the public health arena with an “innovation layer” application placed over the existing health IT structure, according to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. read more …read more      

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is teaming up with IBM to pilot a study to harness electronic health records to help physicians care for patients. The program will use IBM’s Watson technology to study innovative approaches to search EHRs and medical literature for relevant studies in order to quickly collect, combine and present information…

Satisfaction is up among primary care physician electronic health record (EHR) users, according to a recent survey from the New York-based Black Book Market Research’s Black Book Rankings. …read more