Category: EHR

Just days after ending his tenure as National Coordinator for Health IT, Farzad Mostashari, M.D. on Oct. 9 shared unvarnished comments, insights, and asides with an attentive audience at the CHIME Fall CIO Forum, being held this week in Scottsdale, Arizona. Most newsworthy were his comments around what he sees as the severe improbability of…

Research at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai suggests that drugs could be repurposed to improve drug safety, including lowering the risk of heart attacks. Using the Food and Drug Administration’s Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS), a hospital electronic health records database, and an animal model, a team of researchers at the Icahn…

Physicians are not big fans of electronic health records (EHRs), saying they are too cumbersome to operate and a big reason for their job dissatisfaction, a new survey from the Santa Monica, Calif.-based nonprofit research organization, the RAND Corporation, reveals. Physicians are not big fans of electronic health records (EHRs), saying they are too cumbersome…

There’s a love/hate relationship between physicians and electronic health records, according to a study of physician satisfaction by RAND Health. In data gathered from 30 physician practices in… read more Source: EHRs have both positive, negative effect on physician satisfaction

While physicians recognize the benefits of electronic health records, they also complain that many systems deployed nowadays are cumbersome to use and often act as obstacles to quality care, according to a new report from RAND Corporation. The study makes the case that being able to provide high-quality healthcare is a primary driver of job…

Today’s EHR and HIT News includes updates from PatientKeeper, on a new KLAS research report, as well as customer acquisition news from Shareable Ink, who have announced that Northern Colorado Anesthesia Professionals have selected their product. There is also collaboration news between Elsevier and eClinicalWorks. Providers Affirm that PatientKeeper EMR Overlay Is a Viable Long-Term…

Sunnie Southern, founder and CEO of Viable Synergy, spends her days pushing for health IT innovation. Her firm provides products and consulting services for commercialization and community engagement. One of its best-known projects is Innov8 for Health, a Cincinnati-based tech accelerator. Southern, a registered dietitian who started her firm in 2010, talked about her work…

The Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC) has announced that its Quality Data Center (QDC) v. 3.0 is compliant with the ONC 2014 Edition criteria. It was certified as an EHR Module on September 11, 2013 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology and ONC-ACB, in accordance with applicable Eligible Provider certification criteria adopted by the…

Being able to provide high-quality health care is a primary driver of job satisfaction among physicians, and obstacles to quality patient care are a source of stress for doctors, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Source: Doctors concerned about electronic health records

Electronic health records are, for the most part, reliable. But one of the downsides to EHRs is that when they don’t work, the hospital is at a standstill. … And that’s how our government has shut down. read more Source: The government, like EHRs, needs to be reliable