On a research mission observing numerous orthopedists years ago, Paul Brient, athenahealth’s chief product officer, said it was almost as if the doctors were doing different things altogether, despite their shared specialty. These...
As the digital health transformation continues, artificial intelligence (AI) EHR integrations are helping streamline medication reconciliation for improved patient safety. Medication reconciliation is the process of compiling the most...
A California health information exchange (HIE) is expanding its data sharing capabilities to address social determinants of health (SDOH) through community information exchange (CIE). In addition to being an HIE, the North Coast Health...
A web-based EHR implementation at a Mississippi hospital has significantly improved clinician satisfaction while also cutting down on health IT costs and saving valuable clinical time. King’s Daughters Medical Center in Brookhaven, MS...
“Fail. Fail often, fail fast, and learn.” That’s the philosophy for Mary Kratz, the executive vice president of the Interoperability Institute (IOI), as she and her organization wraps up a simulation session to test...
The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) recently named EHR vendor Cerner the hospital category winner of its 2021 Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) Now COVID-19 FHIR App Challenge for its public health eCR solution, a...
Andrew Mellin, MD, MBA, a VP and chief medical information officer at Surescripts, wants healthcare to get rid of its fax machines. The archaic technology, which he called a universal inbox, should instead be replaced by health data...
Connecting to a health information exchange (HIE) may be the best way for provider organizations to comply with new CMS interoperability regulations that require hospitals to send patient event notifications through the admission,...
With 32 years of health IT experience under her belt, Michelle O’Connor, MEDITECH president and CEO, has found the secret sauce to EHR implementation success: clinician engagement. A well-crafted EHR implementation project plan should...
EHRs aim to streamline patient care by providing clinicians with up-to-date access to patient health records. Ideally, providers would pull up a patient’s EHR record and have all the information they need in one place. But without key...
A Pennsylvania health system improved patient safety and cut costs through the integration of a health IT solution with medication transcription and translation artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. Prior to the EHR integration,...
Saint Peter’s Healthcare System integrated an application programming interface (API) into its EHR to adhere to the new Medicaid/Medicare conditions of participation rule and promote interoperability across its healthcare ecosystem....
Despite climbing EHR adoption rates across the healthcare industry, adoption and EHR implementation within the behavioral healthcare sector is woefully behind, leaving many clinicians to use outdated paper charts. Mental and behavioral...
Employees at Keck Medicine of USC, a health system that includes three hospitals and over 40 outpatient facilities in the Los Angeles area, were forced to handle the COVID-19 vaccination wave through the healthcare facility’s access...
At Mary Washington Hospital, getting a vaccine appointment is as easy as getting a table at your favorite restaurant, thanks to an innovative EHR optimization process. CORRECTION: This article is updated to clarify Mary Washington...
When a healthcare crisis hits, scientists try to figure out the what, why, and who of the crisis, and during COVID-19, that search coincided with significant disruption, according to Tom Skelton, chief executive officer of Surescripts....
Picture life on the internet before pop-up blockers. An individual would log onto the internet, and unrelated or obnoxious pop-ups would fill the screen. EHR alerts are just like those web browser pop-ups, except these alerts are not only...
Just six years ago, Rush University Medical Center clinicians experienced a significant lack of EHR support and training, which resulted in increased frustration and a crippling case of clinician burnout. “In the past, the...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is gearing up to help organizations succeed with all phases of the interoperability rule, focused mainly on moving a range of health IT levers in unison in both the short and long term,...
The COVID-19 pandemic gave rise to a new way of installing health IT: virtual EHR implementations. Social distancing and COVID-19 travel bans limited the number of EHR implementation options for hospitals across the country. As a result,...