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ECRI, EHR Association put forth safety practices for behavioral health IT

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

ECRI's Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety is working with the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association chart some of the common challenges involved in integrating behavioral health systems with primary care EHRs. Optimize clinical documentation for behavioral health and primary care integration. WHY IT MATTERS.

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HIE future bright -- FHIR API to Document Sharing

Healthcare Exchange Standards

I think the most useful value-add that an HIE can add is an API that is based on FHIR. This is true of an XDS based HIE, Regional Exchange (XCA), Vendor based EHR, nationwide Exchange, and Direct HISP. At an HIE level: Initially I would focus on enabling Apps to query for and read the data available in the HIE.

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How Health Data Sharing Impacts How Clinicians Care for Patients

Healthcare IT Today

General’s emergency room, the hospital’s care team documented a number of indicators that appeared to be related to a neurological issue. It’s no secret that time spent on administrative responsibilities, including time spent in poorly designed EHRs, are contributing to physician burnout and ultimately, workforce shortages.

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Bonus Features – April 14, 2024 – Less than 6 in 10 docs satisfied with electronic access to external immunization info, 68% of nurses are feeling overwhelmed, plus 38 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

The bigger issue seems to be how regulators and HIE entities are going to address other data use cases as defined by HIPAA, such as Payment, Operations, Research, or Patient Request. Greenway Health is integrating Nabla , an ambient clinical documentation tool, into its Prime Suite and Intergy EHR solutions.

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Have MHD Clients? What Infrastructure should you deploy>

Healthcare Exchange Standards

In the past XDS was used when one wanted to create a Document Sharing HIE, and XCA was used to federate XDS Document Sharing HIE and add in EHR based Document publications. I am working up a set of decisions around the use of XDS vs XCA vs MHDS.

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Micky Tripathi’s glass-half-full view of EHR interoperability – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

He notes that we’re really just getting started: When the Recovery Act was enacted in 2009, the EHR adoption rate nationally was about 10%, and that rate got up over 50% in 2013. Since we couldn’t expect interoperability before a critical mass of providers were using EHRs, 2014-15 was the timeframe for starting to think about it.

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Micky Tripathi’s glass-half-full view of EHR interoperability – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

He notes that we’re really just getting started: When the Recovery Act was enacted in 2009, the EHR adoption rate nationally was about 10%, and that rate got up over 50% in 2013. Since we couldn’t expect interoperability before a critical mass of providers were using EHRs, 2014-15 was the timeframe for starting to think about it.