article thumbnail

An EMR frustration that is still torturing us

KevinMD

I have written, or more accurately ranted, about electronic medical records (EMR) systems throughout this blog. Of course, EMR has brought tremendous advantages to the medical profession, and we are all […].

EMR 489
article thumbnail

Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

News The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health Seven health system IT executives explain how they're strategizing to build on the post-. News How CIOs are prioritizing AI investments for the next 5 years In the first installment of Healthcare IT News' newest feature series, five hospital and health.

Health IT 148
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Uses of AI in Healthcare – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Greg Wujek, Global Health Industry Consultant at SAS Robots as providers comes of age. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.

Health IT 126
article thumbnail

Breaking News: Judy Faulkner from Epic Sneezed

Healthcare IT Today

UPDATE: Obviously this is an April Fool’s Day joke based on the number of health IT companies who tell me that they can’t get any media coverage but if Judy Faulkner from Epic sneezes, all the health IT media cover it (Shoutout to all the healthcare communication pros out there). They’re not wrong.

EHR 114
article thumbnail

How Tech Can Optimize Protocol-Driven Care For Children With Medical Complexity

Healthcare IT Today

Many clinical practice groups have developed consensus-based protocols and clinical pathways to detail the steps in a course of treatment or care plan to standardize care for a specific clinical problem, procedure, or encounter. Unfortunately, these children are at a high risk of missed, fragmented, and/or inappropriate care.

EMR 106
article thumbnail

Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Healthcare IT Today

Storage of Information in Various Systems While serving diverse medical institution needs, Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) parallel existence complicates information access and exchange between doctors, patients, and different medical centers.

HIPAA 115
article thumbnail

What ChatGPT Means for Virtual-First Care

Healthcare IT Today

In the beginning, of course, both parties will be skeptical. The translation of that scribing directly into the EMR can do the same – this will also reduce provider burnout related to EMR fatigue. The days of “googling for doctors” are dwindling. ChatGPTtool recently passed the U.S.

EMR 98