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6 EHR Optimization Tips

Healthcare IT Today

One thing I’ve learned in 16 years writing about health IT and particularly focused on EMR (now EHR if you prefer), is that the EHR still impacts so many things in the life of a clinician. Yes, hospitals and health systems have 1000s of health IT solutions that they have to manage, upgrade, secure, etc. […].

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Downstream Impacts of EHR Optimization

Healthcare IT Today

Yesterday we shared 6 EHR optimization tips with you. Today, we’re going to look at the ecosystem of technology that interacts with the EHR and makes the EHR experience better (or worse if done wrong).

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Weekly Roundup – February 17, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… Why Self-Scheduling Has Reached a Tipping Point. Read more… CIO Podcast : Health IT’s Role in Leadership.

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EHR Optimization Process “Sprints” Improve Teamwork and Satisfaction

Healthcare IT Today

When Colorado-based integrated health system UCHealth set out to reduce the burden their Epic EHR imposed on clinicians, it started by prioritizing improvements that affected the largest number of clinicians possible, along with distributing EHR tip sheets and holding training sessions.

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Health Care Portals: Looking Beyond the Patients’ Horizon

Healthcare IT Today

athenahealth’s integrations with hospital EHR systems allow the platform to receive discharge instructions when a patient leaves a hospital. Automation is supported by exchanging data with the EHR and other sources of information, such as the user’s location. Technology has the potential to improve both simultaneously.

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Security and Privacy Hurdles Plaguing AI-Driven Health Services

Healthcare IT Today

With that, here are my tips for patients: Think twice before inputting PII or PHI into unknown mobile apps without knowing the practices they follow. Check for release notes on the details (“bugs and fixes” or “new features and enhancements” are not acceptable release notes) before updating the apps you already have.

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How the pandemic has reshaped CIOs' views on adaptability, agility, security and hiring

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In this 11th installment in Healthcare IT News ' Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era feature series, we speak with three health IT leaders from points across the map, including: Dr. Andrew W. When every system in your healthcare system is offline, your organization must be able to operate differently.