Use & Optimization News

Restricted EHR Configuration Does Not Improve Clinician Efficiency, Study Finds

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A restricted EHR configuration limited to one patient record open at a time did not impact clinician efficiency, despite perceptions that an unrestricted EHR was more efficient, according to a study...

PCORI Awards $123M to Support Clinical Effectiveness Research

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The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has announced funding awards totaling $123 million to support 15 clinical effectiveness research (CER) studies. Additionally, PCORI awarded $4...

BCBSA Offers Health Equity Guide to Standardized SDOH Data Collection

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Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), in partnership with the National Minority Quality Forum (NMQF), has urged the healthcare industry to adopt a health equity-focused set of recommendations to...

KLAS: Personal Initiative Drives Clinician, Nurse EHR Satisfaction

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Personal initiative is the most commonly reported reason for EHR success, according to a KLAS Arch Collaborative report that suggests leadership should encourage clinicians to take ownership of their...

KLAS: Speech Recognition For Clinical Documentation On The Rise

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The healthcare market is moving towards front-end speech recognition as the go-to clinical documentation platform, according to a KLAS report. KLAS interviews thousands of healthcare professionals...

Microsoft, Nuance Announce AI-Automated Clinical Documentation App

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Nuance Communications, a Microsoft company, has announced Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) Express, the first clinical documentation application to combine conversational and ambient artificial...

VA Report Outlines Solutions to Key EHRM Patient Safety Issues

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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has released a report that outlines the current state of the EHR Modernization (EHRM) program and gives an update on technical fixes for key patient safety...

Rigid MAT EHR Workflows Add to Nurses’ Cognitive Load

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Medication administration technology (MAT) system inefficiencies complicate nurses’ EHR workflows, according to a study published in JAMIA. Researchers conducted interviews with 32 nurses...

Clinical Decision Support EHR Alert Doubles Heart Failure Drug Prescriptions

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A clinical decision support (CDS) EHR alert helped increase prescription rates of a life-saving heart failure drug, according to a study published in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology...

CDS EHR Integration Reduces Inappropriate Urine Culture Orders

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A clinical decision support (CDS) EHR integration helped significantly reduce inappropriate urine culture (UC) orders among hospitalized patients in the country’s large safety-net hospital...

Slow System Response Time Hampers Clinician EHR Satisfaction

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System response time is a top factor hampering clinician EHR satisfaction, according to a KLAS Arch Collaborative research report. KLAS has used the Net EHR Experience Score (NEES) to measure...

PCORI Launches Comparative Clinical Effectiveness Research Initiative

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The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has kicked off a multiyear comparative clinical effectiveness research initiative with an initial investment of $50 million. The Health Systems...

KLAS Ranks Long Term Care EHR Vendor Performance, Customer Satisfaction

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With increasing costs and changing reimbursements for long term care (LTC) delivery, scrutiny of EHR vendor value is high. A recent KLAS report revealed that among fully rated vendors, customers ranked...

Analyzing Free-Text EHR Orders to Support Clinical Workflow Optimization

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Understanding the scope and drivers of the use of nursing-related free-text EHR orders can help guide clinical workflow optimization, according to a study published in JAMIA. Researchers led a...

CDS EHR Integration Boosts Patient Problem List Documentation

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A clinical decision support (CDS) EHR integration improved patient problem list documentation but did not contribute to improvements in clinical quality measures, according to a study published in...

ONC Brief Outlines How Standardized SDOH CDS Can Support Health Equity

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Clinical decision support (CDS) that includes social determinants of health (SDOH) factors could help advance health equity and improve health outcomes, according to an ONC brief. CDS uses computable...

8 in 10 Care Orgs Collect SDOH Data, But EHR Coding Challenges Persist

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Nearly eight in 10 healthcare organizations collect social determinants of health (SDOH) data. Still, challenges related to the EHR coding of this data persist, according to an American Health...

3 Care Orgs Tap EHR Implementations for Clinical Workflow Optimization

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With high levels of clinician burnout across the care continuum, healthcare organizations are leveraging EHR implementations for clinical workflow optimization. Family Clinic Moves to eClinicalWorks...