Use & Optimization News

EHR Clinician Notes Offer Glimpse into Implicit Bias in Medicine

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A look at EHR clinician notes gives insight into implicit bias in medicine, with EHR documentation indicating clinicians have disbelief in Black patients over White patients, according to a study...

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

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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...

EHR Vendor, Organizational Relationship Key to EHR Satisfaction

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EHR satisfaction and success are possible with any EHR system after improved organizational and vendor teamwork, according to a recent KLAS Impact Report. Physician respondents noted the importance of...

Implementing an Automatic Travel History EHR Extraction System

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An EHR extraction system could be the key for translating unstructured text about patient travel history into actionable health data, according to a study published in JMIR Publications. Without an...

Clinician EHR Workload, Cognitive Efforts Double After EHR Adoption

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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...

Major NY Health System Leverages Epic EHR COVID-19 Vaccine Solution

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Catholic Health System in Western New York leveraged the Epic EHR COVID-19 vaccine solution to distribute roughly 12,000 vaccines to New York healthcare workers and other individuals in the 1A...

EHR Flowsheet, Documentation Challenges Cause Clinician Burnout

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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

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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...

CVS Health Aims to Alleviate Clinician Burnout Through EHR Alerts

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CVS Health is striving to mitigate clinician burnout by limiting the number of EHR alerts, according to CVS Health’s Health Trends Report 2021. Furthermore, CVS Health is aiming to improve...

How to Leverage Health Information Standards to Boost EHR Usability

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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...

MEDITECH, Epic Lead Small Hospital EHR Vendor Satisfaction

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MEDITECH, Epic, and Cerner address many organization challenges and provide the best practices to small hospitals, leading to high EHR vendor satisfaction, according to a recent KLAS Performance...

Ascension to Expand Google EHR Search Tool Integration Across Sites

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Ascension, a Missouri-based health system, has announced it is expanding the integration of a Google EHR search tool that aims to display relevant patient data in a way that helps clinicians utilize...

Clinicians Unable to Complete Tasks with an EHR Documentation Scribe

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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,...

Health Experts Misjudged EHR Clinician Burnout at HITECH Act Passage

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Following the passage of the HITECH Act in 2009 and the subsequent increase in EHR adoption, clinicians and healthcare experts significantly underestimated the degree of clinician burnout and its...

Mitigating Specialty Clinician Burnout with a Customizable EHR

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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

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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

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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...

Users Override Clinical Decision Support Alerts at High Rates

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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)...

Developing a Clinical Decision Support Tool to Enhance Home Care

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An EHR-implemented clinical decision support tool can influence the standardization and customization of home care nurse decision making and also improve patient care in the home care setting by...

COVID-19 Telehealth Boom Stymied Clinical Decision Support Alerts

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Increased telehealth adoption and use during COVID-19 had a negative impact on clinical decision support (CDS) alerts, often resulting in missed alerts by clinicians, according to a study published in...