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5 Ways Hospitals Can Improve Stroke Outcomes
By Tracy Love – Improving stroke outcomes is all about recognizing stroke symptoms FAST and cutting the time between symptom onset and treatment.
A New Challenge Competition – Can You Help Make EHR Safety Reporting Easy
By Andrew Gettinger MD – Reporting on the safe use of health information technology – especially the use of electronic health records – continues to be a challenge to many healthcare providers.
CMS’s Proposed Interoperability PI Rule Changes Is A Good Start, But Does It Address Enough?
By Thanh Tran & Donald Voltz MD – Federal healthcare organizations such as CMS have spent billions of dollars over the years trying to bridge the gap between medical data and quality patient care with interoperability requirements and data integration, the mesh used to try and bridge the gap.
The FDA is Asking for More Information on Application Forms
By Christopher Leptak MD PhD – To be most effective, electronic health records use a systematized and standardized nomenclature for the hundreds of thousands of clinical terms that characterize patient care.
If Everyone Hates It, Change the Name
By William Hyman – I think it is fair to say that EHRs, as we currently know them, are largely hated by their users, although no doubt beloved by their vendors.
How EHRs Give Time Back to Nurses
By Cathy Turner – It’s Nurses Week! Let’s talk nurses. It goes without saying that nurses are busy. Caring for patients and keeping up with documentation takes up the majority of their time and resources.
User-Centered Design (aka Design Thinking) for Healthcare IT Usability Improvement
By Bennett Lauber – The usability (or lack thereof) of Healthcare IT has been in the news a lot again. This time a research report published in JAMA researchers analyzed voluntary error reports associated with EHR systems and found that problems with EHR usability may have directly resulted in patient harm.
Effective Immediately, CMS Renames MIPS ACI to PI
By Tom S. Lee PhD – CMS continues to refine and streamline incentive programs, this time focusing on Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Record for hospitals and the Advancing Care Information category for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System.