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EHR documentation burdens increasing with virtual care expansion, says study

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network compared patient messaging among ambulatory physicians before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, finding they were mostly documenting visits and not messaging patients. Outside of PSHs, their time spent documenting in the EHR increased from 4.29

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Telehealth, hybrid care adding to physicians' EHR workload

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

While telehealth alone doesn't appear to add significantly to a primary care physician's workload, mixing modalities – telehealth and in-person hybrid care environments – led to a 6% increase in time spent with documentary and EHR work, new research shows. more medical record review minutes.

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Fraser Health to Leverage Generative AI for Clinical Documentation in MEDITECH Expanse EHR

Digital Health Global

a large regional health authority, will be one of the first health systems globally to deploy generative AI to assist with clinical documentation in MEDITECH’s Expanse EHR, using Google Cloud’s Vertex AI and large language models (LLMs). .–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Fraser Health Authority (Surrey, B.C.),

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Insights Into EHR Documentation Workstations

Healthcare IT Today

One of the most important and least covered things in healthcare IT is the various EHR Documentation Workstations. No doubt it’s a regular topic of conversations at healthcare organizations because an EHR workstation configuration really impacts EHR users experience and therefore the patient.

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'Much bigger than just a global pandemic': How hospitals can plan crisis EHR documentation

Mobi Health News

In a preview of their HIMSS22 panel, Serena Bumpus of Ascension and Stephanie Hoelscher of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center explain their Texas pilot study on crisis documentation during COVID-19 surges and how it could lessen the burden on nurses.

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Suki expands availability of its ambient AI clinical documentation platform

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It can be used for clinical documentation, diagnosis coding, real-time information retrieval from the electronic health record and other applications. "We support bidirectional integration with all major EHRs, including Epic, Cerner, Meditech, and Athena." " He points out the U.S.

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Google demos its EHR-like clinical documentation tool

Mobi Health News

News of the tool, currently in clinical pilots, comes a week after reports circulated that Google was working with healthcare system Ascension on a controversial project involving patient data.

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