Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)
Electronic health record market, policy and funding variables have historically left behavioral health behind, but there is movement on all fronts, says Alisa Chestler, chair of the data protection, privacy and cybersecurity Team at Baker Donelson.
The company recently expanded the platform's capabilities to support those in inpatient settings to work across hospital, ambulatory, telehealth, skilled nursing facilities and home health.
Nursing and IT
Marquette is the first nursing school in the country to incorporate the use of Epic's educational health records software into its curriculum.
"Imagine if the tools on your computer that you need to do your job were so cumbersome, they caused you to be fatigued, burnout, and to have to work extra hours to get your job done. How would this impact the quality of your work?"
By integrating a patient portal screening tool into the clinical workflow, Tufts University researchers aim to advance the use of HIT to identify food-insecure and nutrition-insecure patients and pave the way to interventions like nutrition prescriptions.
Success Stories & ROI
Critical patient insights were missing in more than 13% of Denver Health electronic health records. A new methodology has helped reduce this to less than 1%.
Despite facing immense challenges since the pandemic began, the nursing workforce is nothing but resilient and resourceful. These stories show how RNs and NPs are embracing emerging tech to advance their mission to serve patients.
The Defense Health Agency has earmarked as much as $180 million for the project, which seeks to build a next-generation hybrid care platform for the U.S. Military Health System
AI & ML Intelligence
Helen Waters, chief operating officer at the EHR giant, describes the company's artificial intelligence strategy and shows how provider organizations can benefit today from NLP, LLMs, generative AI and more.
She lays out the company's approach to generative AI for clinical documentation, advanced natural language processing and large language models through its partnership with Google, a conversational AI virtual assistant, and more.