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Modifying EHR Prescribing Settings Can Improve Prescribing Patterns

by Christopher Jason

Optimizing EHR opioid prescribing default settings can boost prescribing patterns, according to a study published in JMIR Publications. Furthermore, reducing the duration of an opioid prescription and...

The Pros and Cons of EHR Clinical Decision Support Alerts

by Christopher Jason

Clinical decision support (CDS) alerts may not seem significant on the surface, but these alerts have the potential to save patient lives. CDS alerts permit clinicians to access real-time patient...

How to Enhance EHR Use Measures to Mitigate Clinician Burnout

by Christopher Jason

To effectively boost EHR optimization and reduce clinician burnout, healthcare stakeholders must develop EHR use measures that are actionable, usable, transparent, and trustworthy, according to a JAMA...

Epic Systems Tops EHR Vendor Expectations During COVID-19

by Christopher Jason

Epic Systems and MEDITECH both stood above the rest and exceeded expectations as EHR vendors throughout COVID-19, according to a recent KLAS report. This report follows up on a similar one published...

EHR Adoption Barriers, Facilitators in Behavioral Health Facilities

by Christopher Jason

Behavioral health EHR developers and hospitals should recognize end users’ perspectives on specific barriers and facilitators before EHR implementation, according to a study featuring survey...

Ambulatory Docs Spend 5-Plus Hours on EHR Use Per Day

by Christopher Jason

Ambulatory physicians spend more than five hours on EHR use for every eight hours of scheduled patient time, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics...

athenahealth Launches EHR Coding Solution to Mitigate Clinician Burnout

by Christopher Jason

athenahealth has announced the launch of athenaOne Medical Coding solution, an EHR coding solution that the vendor said could mitigate clinician coding-related work and ultimately reduce clinician...

Clinician EHR Workload, Cognitive Efforts Double After EHR Adoption

by Christopher Jason

Clinician workload and cognitive efforts doubled after the first six months of EHR adoption, according to a study published in Applied Ergonomics. Clinicians also experienced increased EHR workload...

How an EHR Suicide Risk Assessment Tool Can Streamline Workflows

by Christopher Jason

An EHR suicide risk assessment tool can accurately predict suicide attempts and also mitigate clinician burnout in a non-psychiatric medical facility, according to a study published in JAMA Network...

EHR Flowsheet, Documentation Challenges Cause Clinician Burnout

by Christopher Jason

Optimizing and simplifying the EHR flowsheet to structured response fields rather than a text input dialogue could help reduce clinician burnout and aid EHR documentation, according to a study...

EHR Simulation Training Garners Positive Resident Feedback

by Christopher Jason

Workflow-specific EHR simulation training is a more enjoyable and beneficial EHR training tactic for residents than traditional approaches, according to a study published in JMIR Publications. Quality...

How to Leverage Health Information Standards to Boost EHR Usability

by Christopher Jason

Developing and implementing a human-centered design (HCD) into the EHR can boost EHR usability and aid clinicians when reviewing patient data charts, according to a study published in the Journal of...

Clinicians Unable to Complete Tasks with an EHR Documentation Scribe

by Christopher Jason

Hiring an EHR documentation scribe does not improve the time for a clinician to complete out-of-visit tasks, such as answer patient portal messages, fill prescription requests, and send test results,...

What is an Immunization Information System, Why is it Important?

by Christopher Jason

Once integrated into the EHR, an immunization information system (IIS) helps improve COVID-19 vaccination distribution, administration, documentation, and monitorization by gathering and storing...

Mitigating Specialty Clinician Burnout with a Customizable EHR

by Christopher Jason

A bespoke EHR system optimized around a clinician-centered, specialty design can mitigate clinician burnout, according to a study published in JMIR Publications. EHRs are one of the top clinician...

EHR Multitasking Causes and How to Improve Clinician Burnout

by Christopher Jason

Clinicians and continuing medical education individuals both suggested EHR multitasking as a direct cause of EHR errors and clinician burnout, according to a study published in JMIR Publications. The...

6 EHR Usability Pitfalls, Challenges Leading to Clinician Burnout

by Christopher Jason

Multiple EHR usability factors lead to clinician burnout, highlighted by total EHR time, after-hours EHR time, and EHR documentation time, according to a study published in the Journal of the American...

Top EHR Usability Challenges and How to Overcome Them

by Christopher Jason

EHR systems are constantly evolving. But while technology aims to help its users complete daily tasks, usability problems tend to arise. Sometimes these problems occur at implementation. Yet, in reality, clinicians oftentimes encounter...

Epic, NextGen Healthcare, athenahealth Boast Top EHR Training

by Christopher Jason

Epic, NextGen Healthcare, and athenahealth led the top large ambulatory EHR vendors in quality EHR training and clinician preparedness, according to a recent KLAS report. Although high-quality EHR...

Users Override Clinical Decision Support Alerts at High Rates

by Christopher Jason

Users overrode all renal clinical decision support alert triggers in a recently implemented EHR system due to the high-level of CDS alert frequency. CDS overrides can lead to adverse drug events (ADEs)...