Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

The pandemic has exemplified the crucial role information technology plays in healthcare, said execs at the HIMSS21 CIO Summit on Monday.

Great Ormond Street Hospital and The Royal Marsden NHS FT have signed an agreement to share a single electronic patient record system (EPR).

Providing integrated viewing methods that meet the needs of varied clinicians and patients alike.

Many health systems have over-designed their electronic health records, resulting in a lot of noise and non-value-added data elements, say Banner nursing informaticists, who will talk more about the essential clinical dataset at HIMSS21.

At HIMSS21, an informaticist at Greater Baltimore Medical Center will explain how AI-powered documentation is enabling better patient outcomes and greater efficiency for physicians.

The 50-location urgent care provider also decreased chart completion time from 4-5 minutes to 45 seconds, a big plus for caregivers.

Also, Cloud21 announces that it will be creating 50 jobs to support digital health services across the NHS. 

An implementation executive discusses how Epic's electronic health records are verifying vaccination status, non-traditional vaccination settings, data modernization and how QR codes are helping.

The EHR vendor will also feature updates from its Epic Health Research Network, along with focuses on interoperability, patient access, population health and analytics.

The electronic health record vendor has also updated its on-campus masking policies in response to public health guidance.