Category: EHR

Nearly 90 percent of medical transcriptionists say that transitioning to documentation roles with electronic health records means that gaps in skills need to be identified and new career paths charted, according to new a study. read more …read more Source: Job changes coming for transcriptionists

They have made this mu reporting so bad….as our doctor says…they do not want doctor’s to practice by themselves…They are doing all they can to get them into ACOS… The above is a quote from an EMR and HIPAA reader who emailed me about the meaningful use requirements. The conclusion was what really caught my…

I’ve written many blog posts about our efforts along the path to ICD-10 that will enhance our inpatient clinical documentation. We’re hard at work planning the improvements we think are foundational to support care coordination, compliance, and quality measurement goals. It’s very challenging to create tools which simultaneously enable rapid, accurate, and complete clinical documentation.…

Health IT leaders expressed interest in a voluntary “innovation track” for reporting clinical quality measurements for Meaningful Use Stage 3 at a July 1 meeting of the ONC Health IT Policy… read more Source: Quality Measures Workgroup unofficially endorses 'innovation track'

More than two-thirds of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, but many primary care physicians are failing to record body mass index (BMI) in their electronic health records or include these conditions in their electronic patient problem lists, according to a research letter published July 8, in JAMA Internal Medicine. read more Source: BMI documentation…

Open source electronic health record systems such as VistA are better than closed proprietary systems in terms of development, innovation and continuous quality improvement, but providers can still make the transition run more smoothly, according to Peter Groen, former CIO of Atlanta VA Medical Center. read more Source: CIO: Consider 'lessons learned' before implementing open…

The dropout rate for Meaningful Use has “soared” in the second year of the program, with a whopping 21 percent of family physicians who attested in 2011 failing to do so in 2012. read more Source: Meaningful Use program loses 20% of attesting docs

“Unprecedented” levels of financial support for health IT adoption from the Meaningful Use Incentive Program are fueling the increase in electronic health record use by providers, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's annual report. read more Source: Federal support spurs 'major strides' in EHR adoption

The American Medical Association's House of Delegates recently approved a policy to help physicians better interact with their patients while using their electronic health records. read more Source: AMA adopts policy to improve EHR-patient relations

A lead software designer for VistA recently called out Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel for not taking a patient-centric approach to the creation of an integrated electronic health record between DoD and the Department of Veterans Affairs. read more Source: VistA lead designer slams Hagel for iEHR approach