Tag: electronic-health
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CIO: Use different approaches to encourage EHR adoption
Hospitals need to take into account each particular physician and tailor their approach to moving the physician to an electronic health record system, according to Daniel Morreale, vice president and CIO at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in New York City. read more
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EHR users: Meet big brother
Within the past month, we've heard that electronic health records are under the gun for potential noncompliance of not one, but four different laws. read more
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EHRs must evolve as big data use grows
As big data use continues to increase in healthcare, electronic health records will need to evolve simultaneously, researchers from Northwestern University, Geisinger Health System and Mount Sinai School of Medicine write in a viewpoint recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. read more
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Providers: Ensure your EHR system is ADA compliant
Many providers implementing electronic health record systems and other e-tools may find themselves discriminating against the disabled in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. read more
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Kaiser faulted for inaccurate e-tracking of mental health care
Kaiser Permanente's Behavioral Health System has been cited by the California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) for inaccurate electronic health record keeping. read more
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EHR data still ‘too fragmented’ for secondary uses
While electronic health record data has the potential to be reused to identify which patients may be eligible to participate in clinical trials, the data capture is too incomplete and “fragmented” to be relied on for such a secondary use, according to new research published in BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making . read more
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Server failure forces hospital off of EHR for 10 days
Executives at Boulder (Colo.) Community Hospital are probably breathing easier now that the facility's electronic health record system is up and running after a malfunction kept it offline for more than a week. read more
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How to boost EHR adoption for primary care docs
Merely owning an electronic health record system won't improve patient care, but an EHR can be a powerful tool to help providers do so, according to Jesse Singer, Assistant Commissioner of New York City's Primary Care Information Project, home to the city's regional extension center. read more
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ONC: Post-acute providers should embrace EHRs, HIEs
Long term and post acute care providers have “numerous” opportunities to engage in health information exchange, and need to adopt interoperable electronic health record systems, according to a new issue brief published by ONC. read more
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Meaningful use can be stretch even for EHR pioneer
Vanderbilt University Medical Center was a pioneer in the use of health information technology and rolled out its homegrown StarPanel electronic health record back in 2001. But this early experience didn’t mean that meeting the meaningful-use…