During the opening keynote at the 2021 Cerner Health Conference, the health IT vendor’s new president and CEO, David Feinberg, MD, MBA, said that EHR usability is key to the success of the...
Leveraging health IT data standards through a gender-inclusive HL7 model for EHR documentation could help improve care delivery for gender-marginalized patients and boost health equity, according to a...
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives’ (CHIME) Digital Health Most Wired survey awarded 10 healthcare organizations the highest level of certification for their commitment...
Machine learning offers significant potential to extract social determinant of health (SDOH) data from EHR clinical notes, which may aid in the development of clinical decision support systems,...
EHR optimization to support data interoperability could improve the value of pragmatic clinical research, according to a study published in JAMIA.
Pragmatic clinical trials (PCTs) leverage existing...
Clinical communication platforms have improved outcomes for several EHR vendors in 2021, including clinician collaboration, communication with non-clinician staff, and physician satisfaction, according...
When providers encourage patients to access their EHR patient portal, the latter are much more likely to access their personal health information, according to an ONC data brief based on results from a...
MIT researchers have developed an artificial intelligence EHR system that combines machine learning and human-computer interaction to help physicians speed up the process of looking up medical records...
EHR vendor Cerner announced that it has expanded its Learning Health Network (LHN) with the addition of Children’s Health of Orange County (CHOC) in efforts to advance pediatric clinical...
Negative feedback from public quality reporting programs can help spur EHR optimization among hospitals, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
Hospitals that received negative feedback...
EHR vendor athenahealth has partnered with a health center-controlled network to enhance health IT offerings for federally qualified health centers (FQHCs).
The partnership combines...
As the digital health transformation progresses, health IT stakeholders are focusing on EHR optimizations for enhanced clinical decision support.
While EHR systems aim to provide clinicians with...
Four travel nurses hired by a California hospital to help address the ongoing surge of COVID-19 strains quit days after they were hired due to inadequate EHR use training and onboarding issues,...
epocrates, an athenahealth company, has expanded its partnership with health IT vendor ConnectiveRx in efforts to boost clinical decision support through prescription drug price transparency.
The...
Almost all healthcare organizations that have implemented ambulatory surgery center (ASC) EHR systems report high clinician satisfaction and EHR usability, according to a recent KLAS report.
As more...
Machine learning systems can aid EHR usability and cut burden for disease phenotyping to support clinical research, according to a recent Mount Sinai study published in the journal Patterns.
The...
Current efforts to mitigate clinician burden, such as EHR optimization, can be enhanced through organizational interventions focused on cultivating positive emotions into daily workflows, according to...
EHR systems are not one-size-fits-all; it often takes EHR optimization to streamline data workflows for healthcare organizations to reap the benefits of health IT.
Ideally, providers would pull up a...
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the existing issue of clinician burnout related to health IT use, according to a national survey from the Physicians Foundation.
Editor’s Note: The...
As healthcare stakeholders investigate ways to leverage health IT to mitigate clinician burden and improve patient safety, the next frontier for the digital health transformation could be streamlining...