By Alex Tate – Physicians, hospitals, healthcare centers and other associated services are all using some sort of IT infrastructure in order to provide better care, cut costs and improve patient experience.
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Day 1: National Health IT Week – September 26-30. Allowing participants to leverage the opportunity to raise awareness and help the collective cause by recognizing the value of health IT.
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By Nicole Benz – The future of physician practices is EHRs. We can’t go back to paper and no one is rationally suggesting we do. But there is agreement that EHRs have not met the expectations set out for them.
By Alex Tate – Choosing the right Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a crucial decision for any practice. It carries equivalent weight to making the right diagnosis of a patient. If you are a healthcare provider, consider your practice to be a patient, and an EHR the medicine for your practice. There are hundreds and thousands of EHRs available.
By Susam Vang – If implementing an electronic health record (EHR) is not already challenging for most healthcare organizations, an EHR system design and implementation’s success or failure is greatly dependent on its stakeholders and subject matter experts (SMEs).
Bennett Lauber – The efficient and effective use of Electronic Health Records are essential, as these systems are increasingly becoming a central tool for patient care. The HITECH Act provided providers with a significant financial incentive to increase the adoption and use of EHRs.
By William Hyman – Users of software such as EHRs are sometimes presented with jargon laced responses that may be unique to the software world. For example, as I may have noted here before, I have long been fond of the term “upgrade” when used to mean fixing something that was never right in the first place.
CMS is requesting feedback from hospital stakeholders and organizations on a draft electronic version of a new EHR measure: Use of Antipsychotics in Older Adults in the Inpatient Hospital Setting. Submit Comments by May 15, 2016.