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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. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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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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Ambient Clinical Voice – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 133

Healthcare IT Today

For the 133rd episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are talking about ambient clinical voice ! Then, we debate whether we think ambient clinical voice will just do documentation or if it will become a two-way AI assistant. Will ambient clinical voice just do the documentation or will it become a true two-way AI assistant?

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A Look at Nabla Copilot’s Automatic Clinical Documentation

Healthcare IT Today

Regular readers know that I think ambient clinical voice is one of the most exciting things to happen in health IT since the $36 billion in EHR stimulus money. The promise of automatic note generation is so beautiful and would solve so many of the pains associated with EHR software and more generally clinical documentation.

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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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Featured Health IT Job: EHR Strategic Advisory Specialist

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the EHR Strategic Advisory Specialist position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc. and is a hybrid position located in Ohio.

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