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Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Population Health
By Mike Miliard | 12:57 pm | December 21, 2020
From pandemic-necessitated go-live pauses to major rip-and-replaces, FHIR-based efficiencies to interoperability strides, digital records are evolving.
By Bill Siwicki | 12:10 pm | December 18, 2020
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.
By Kat Jercich | 02:56 pm | December 17, 2020
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.
By Kat Jercich | 01:40 pm | December 17, 2020
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.
By Kat Jercich | 04:50 pm | December 14, 2020
The electronic health record giant said that health systems had shared more than 221 million patient records in a one-month period this fall.
By Bill Siwicki | 01:19 pm | December 14, 2020
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.
By HIMSS TV | 12:11 pm | December 14, 2020
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.
By Tammy Lovell | 02:59 am | December 14, 2020
Sunderland Royal Hospital has become the only hospital in the north of England to be awarded the highest attainable accreditation on the EMRAM.
By Mike Miliard | 03:57 pm | December 11, 2020
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.
By Kat Jercich | 11:52 am | December 11, 2020
A research letter published this week found no difference in patient satisfaction scores despite the discrepancy in EHR time between male and female physicians.