Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)
Population Health
From pandemic-necessitated go-live pauses to major rip-and-replaces, FHIR-based efficiencies to interoperability strides, digital records are evolving.
For the first three quarters of 2020, it has registered a 40% reduction in its patient no-show rate, compared with face-to-face visits.
Developers from Epic say they tried to keep the recent redesign accessible and easy to use, with patient information "always front and center" to reduce the need to navigate to different portals.
A pair of studies aims to examine just how much time American clinicians spend in the electronic health record – and how it impacts their relationship with patients.
The electronic health record giant said that health systems had shared more than 221 million patient records in a one-month period this fall.
In our seventh and final feature on burnout, experts at Epic, Cerner, Allscripts and Mad*Pow discuss health IT usability problems and solutions, and describe where user experience is headed.
Jessica Sweeney-Platt, VP of research and editorial strategy at athenahealth, discusses how poor health IT usability can lead to burnout and what kinds of usability efforts are needed to fight stress.
Sunderland Royal Hospital has become the only hospital in the north of England to be awarded the highest attainable accreditation on the EMRAM.
From their EHR workflows, clinicians will have a centralized system enabling them to order and prescribe apps, devices or other digital therapeutic tools for virtual care management.
A research letter published this week found no difference in patient satisfaction scores despite the discrepancy in EHR time between male and female physicians.