Category: EHR

Wisconsin, a state with a high percentage of providers using electronic health record systems, is about to launch its statewide health information exchange. read more Source: Wisconsin state HIE set to go live

In 2003, Peter Anderson, M.D., a primary care physician in practice for more than 20 years at the time, says he hated medicine after failure to use the practice’s EHR appropriately resulted in an $80,000 deficit. Anderson knew he was drowning, and had to find a way to fall back in love with medicine. It…

Though physicians largely are unhappy with their electronic health record systems, they should quell the urge to build their own from scratch, according to a post published recently at The Health Care Blog. read more Source: Frustrated with your EHR? Forget about building your own

This story was updated at 2:16 p.m. ET. The nearly $1 billion electronic health record system at Sutter Health in Northern California crashed early this week, leaving nurses and clinical staff unable to access any patient information for a full day. read more Source: Setback for Sutter after $1B EHR crashes

In the final part of our HIT voices series, Russ Branzell, CEO of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and George T.“Buddy” Hickman, executive vice president and CIO of Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center and CHIME’s board chair discuss meaningful use. Just what is at stake if the Stage 2 timeline isn’t extended? Never…

We all have a tendency to skip over the fine print sometimes; the car rental agreement, the parking garage receipt, etc. I’ve seen firsthand plenty of patients who don’t bother to read their HIPAA Notices of Privacy Practices. So it’s particularly interesting to read that physicians are upset that electronic health record vendor Practice Fusion…

I love when doctors and medical students talk about their first encounter with EHR software. In this case, I came across a medical student who ran into Epic in the hospital and writes about it in this post. Here’s his initial response to it: I took the training module for it and the moment it…

The clinical data analytics market is “rapidly evolving” thanks to the combination of new payment models and an “influx” of data created by electronic health records, according to a new report published by Cambridge, Mass.-based health analyst firm Chilmark Research. read more Source: Clinical analytics market for population health management ‘rapidly evolving’

Last week, yet another provider organization urged HHS officials to “implement an indefinite moratorium on penalties” for physicians as long as they complete Stage 1 of Meaningful Use. In a letter to Secretary Sebelius, the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) also joined CHIME, AAFP, HIMSS and others in requesting an extension to Meaningful Use timelines…

The data in electronic health records can be honed so that it can better be reused for research purposes, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. read more Source: Biases in EHR data can be reduced to improve research