Use & Optimization News

Racial Disparities in EHR Engagement Highlight Implicit Bias Concerns

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Patients from racial and ethnic minority groups were more likely to receive a lower amount of EHR engagement during inpatient stays compared to White patients, according to a study published in...

Mercy Taps Microsoft Azure OpenAI for Clinician, Patient Experience

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Mercy has partnered with Microsoft to use the Azure OpenAI Service and other digital technologies to give clinicians more time to care for patients and improve the patient experience. “Because...

Nuance Releases Generative AI Copilot for Clinical Documentation

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Nuance Communications, Inc., a Microsoft Company, has announced the general availability of Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) Copilot, which leverages conversational, ambient, and generative AI to...

MEDITECH EHR Integration Taps Generative AI for Clinical Notes

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MEDITECH has partnered with health IT vendor Suki on a generative AI EHR integration set to streamline clinical documentation. The EHR vendor will integrate Suki Assistant into MEDITECH Expanse....

Ochsner to Pilot Epic EHR Integration for Generative AI Patient Messaging

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Ochsner Health is launching an Epic EHR integration that uses generative AI to draft messages to patients. A small group of Ochsner clinicians will test the new Epic feature, which aims to speed up...

Oracle Announces Generative AI EHR Tool for Clinical Documentation

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A generative AI EHR integration from Oracle that aims to enhance clinical documentation will be available in the next 12 months. The Oracle Clinical Digital Assistant aims to help providers use voice...

Personalized Clinical Documentation Tools Linked to EHR Satisfaction

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While direct entry is the most common documentation method, physicians who use personalized documentation tools report the highest levels of EHR satisfaction, according to a KLAS Arch Collaborative...

Epic Sepsis Prediction Model Lacks Clinical Decision Support Timeliness

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While the accuracy of a proprietary sepsis prediction model from Epic outperformed other tools at higher threshold predictions, poor timeliness limits its application for clinical decision support...

Additional Epic EHR Education Linked to Clinician Satisfaction

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Participation in Epic EHR education initiatives, like the Physician Power User and Physician Builders programs, is linked to higher clinician satisfaction, according to a KLAS Arch Collaborative...

Effective Resident EHR Training Hinges on Personal Initiative

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According to a study published in JAMIA, a willingness to learn on the job by asking questions was important for resident development in EHR use and clinical documentation.   Researchers...

Epic Announces Integration for Generative AI Clinical Documentation

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EHR vendor Epic has announced a collaboration with health IT vendor Abridge to support generative AI clinical documentation workflows. The collaboration will make Abridge’s generative AI-based...

Microsoft Releases Public Cloud-Hosted Solution for Epic EHR

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Microsoft Corp. has expanded its partnership with Epic by releasing a solution for healthcare organizations to manage large Epic EHR database loads using public cloud-hosted infrastructure. The Azure...

Three Provider Orgs Look to eClinicalWorks EHR for Workflow Upgrades

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Primary Care Joliet, an Illinois-based healthcare organization, has initiated an eClinicalWorks EHR implementation. This recent move aims to streamline administrative workflows, thereby reducing costs...

EHR Work Associated With Clinician Burnout Across Specialties

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Perceived EHR work stress was significantly associated with clinician burnout across all specialties, according to a study published in JAMIA. Researchers invited attending physicians at UC San Diego...

AWS Releases Generative AI Service for Clinical Documentation

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Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) has announced AWS HealthScribe, a generative AI-based service to support automatic clinical documentation. With AWS HealthScribe, health IT providers can use a single...

VA Deploys Verizon Private 5G Network to Advance Patient Care

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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has deployed a private 5G network from Verizon at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System to improve patient care delivery. The deployment is part of a broader...

COVID-19 Exacerbated Gender Disparity in EHR Message Burden

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While the COVID-19 pandemic increased patient EHR message volume across specialties, women physicians experienced a significantly greater message increase, according to a study published in JAMIA....

NLP EHR Integration Identifies Acute COVID-19 Cases with 94% Sensitivity

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EHR integration of natural language processing (NLP) models can effectively triage patients reporting positive at-home COVID-19 test results through the patient portal, according to a study published...

EHR Clinical Note Length Continues to Grow Despite Coding Changes

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Despite EHR coding changes enacted in 2021 aimed at reducing documentation burden, an Epic Research report has found that the average EHR clinical note length has continued to increase. Researchers...

The Sequoia Project, AHIMA Aims to Enhance Data Usability Efforts

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In an effort to build better semantic interoperability of health information, the Sequoia Project and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) have created Data Usability Taking...