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To Drive Value, EHRs Need to Actually be Usable

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The following is a guest article by Khalid Al-Maskari, Founder and CEO of Health Information Management Systems (HiMS) EHRs are ubiquitous because they’re useful – but how useful are they really, and to whom? The truth is that an EHR by definition serves multiple masters, satisfying some more than others. The upshot?

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Ambient Voice Transcriptions Endorsed in a Study by The Permanente Medical Group

Healthcare IT Today

A new study by The Permanente Medical Group (part of Kaiser Permanente) offers confidence that ambient voice transcriptions can save time and improve the patient experience by generating clinical notes about patient visits. This article summarizes the key findings in that study. This study provides encouraging data on some of these questions.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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EHR Training Improves Physician Satisfaction & Physicians Don’t Want to Make Time for EHR Training

Healthcare IT Today

While at the CHIME 2019 Fall Forum conference in Phoenix, AZ, I had a great chance to sit in on one of the CIO focus groups at the event hosted by Optimum Healthcare IT. The session discussed a wide variety of topics including EHR optimization, EHR training, and other related topics. While listening to these […].

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HPG, a Leader in EHR Technology Integration, Acquires HIT Consulting Services Provider HDS

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare Performance Group, Inc. HPG), which has provided industry-leading consulting expertise for EHR technology since 2002, announced today that it acquired Health Data Specialists, LLC (HDS).

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This Week’s Health IT Jobs – April 3, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week. Epic Cupid Analyst – Bluebird Staffing Senior EHR Analyst, Epic Beacon – Ardent Health Services Sr. Note: These jobs are listed by Healthcare IT Today as a free service to the community.

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Where Does it Hurt? Specialty Physician Shares Three Ways to Improve EHR Charting

Healthcare IT Today

It’s also well known that many physicians remain disappointed with the charting and clinical documentation capabilities of hospital and specialty EHRs. According to KLAS Research’s Arch Collaborative, physicians want three basic things from their EHRs: strong user mastery, a sense of ownership and system personalization.

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