Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Using advanced clinical healthcare IT to optimize your most common workflows provides immediate and long-lasting payoffs.

Automated sig translation system created time savings of 34 hours per month for clinicians, translating into about $11,000 in recaptured nursing productivity over 12 months. Further, 30-day readmission rate fell from 6.2% to 5.5%.

A broad look of HIT-related developments in the APAC region in 2019, as well as a glimpse of what might happen in 2020.  

A chief medical officer says 2020 will be a breakthrough year in making EHRs less stressful for providers if the growing avalanche of data is reined in with health IT that makes EHRs work better.

TrakCare implementation aims to improve patient care and support clinical decision-making.

EMRAM is used to manage healthcare, but all stakeholders must work collaboratively to improve outcomes, says Ilker Köse, technology transfer office director at Istanbul Medipol University in Turkey.

There have been many frustrations with how the federal EHR incentive program was implemented this past decade, but those big government subsidies have enabled headway that might not have happened otherwise.

Georgia’s largest health care system will work with the Alphabet subsidiary on several new initiatives, starting with deep analysis of existing medication and lab ordering patterns at Emory.

Hospitals and health systems are beginning to embrace a more holistic approach to ensuring the wellness of their patient populations, and are adjusting their IT strategies to accommodate it.

The update will help health systems coordinate care, with a specific focus on delirium, including sedation and pain medications, breathing machines and mobilization.