HIStalk Weekender

MAY 24, 2019

As a former EHR implementer, specifically into physician practices, your article is honestly depressing. Many docs are all too eager to blame the EHR for problems that have always been there (overscheduling, refill management issues, unwillingness to change habits). Deliver an educational webinar (providers). Get Involved.

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HIStalk Weekender

JANUARY 18, 2019

If any EHR company is going to be bought, chances are likely it would be Cerner, not Epic. They also ignore the conclusions in the same surveys which point out the benefits of EHRs. The system was developed by the Pennsylvania State Board of Nursing to link schools with the Board to communicate pre-licensure activity.

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HIStalk Weekender

JUNE 22, 2018

Can you imagine if you’d been on an EHR for 70+ years and have to now rattle off 100 different medications that you’re not taking since you were born? Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not). Deliver an educational webinar (providers). Get Involved. Be interviewed (providers).

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HIStalk Weekender

JUNE 7, 2019

A KLAS report on newly developed small-hospital inpatient EHRS from Athenahealth, EClinicalWorks, Epic, and Meditech finds that only Meditech has brought sites live. Interoperability became a regulatory issue because despite making all that money on MU largesse, EHR vendors were not moving the ball on interop. NonInterOp ).

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HIStalk Weekender

JANUARY 4, 2019

Epic says that health system EHR sales have plateaued and the company will move “beyond the walls” to store patient records from dentists, on-site clinics, drugstores, and potentially home and hospice care providers. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not). Weekly News Recap.

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Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Is the program capable of offering additional options, such as nurse lines, additional programming, patient education, PERS, step-down options, etc.? . EHR integration with your RPM Program. One of the most powerful ways to ensure that the knowledge gained from patient RPM data is used by all their providers is with EHR integration.

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 3, 2019

The in-house VistA talent that was swept out was expensive, but at least they made an EHR that worked when you turned it on. The EHR is a proxy for a lot of the irritants for clinicians, even if the EHR isn’t the underlying cause. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not).

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HIStalk Weekender

JUNE 15, 2018

GPB Capital acquires Maryland-based RCM/EHR vendor Health Prime International. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not). Deliver an educational webinar (providers). Weekly News Recap. Inspirata acquires Caradigm from GE Healthcare. Get Involved. Be interviewed (providers).

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HIStalk Weekender

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Nova Scotia’s province-wide EHR selection nears completion, with all vendors except Allscripts and Cerner failing to make the cut in a process that has raised questions about possible bias. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not). Deliver an educational webinar (providers).

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HIStalk Weekender

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

A patient of a closed Arizona hospital is prevented from obtaining life-saving surgery because her medical history is stored in an EHR that was shut down as creditors argued over payments. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not). Deliver an educational webinar (providers).

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HIStalk Weekender

APRIL 26, 2019

Wisconsin Public Radio covers the “My Life, My Story” project in which volunteers talk to hospitalized VA patients about their lives and enter their story into the EHR. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not). Deliver an educational webinar (providers). Get Involved.

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HIStalk Weekender

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

A study of EHR-related medication events in pediatric hospitals, of which 18 percent appear to have caused harm, finds system usability as the cause 36 percent of the time. Two nationally prominent articles observe how poorly hospital EHRs handle the end of daylight saving time, as information entered between 1:00 and 2:00 a.m.

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HIStalk Weekender

JULY 6, 2018

Readers Write: EHRs Have Not Reduced Paper Usage Yet. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not). Deliver an educational webinar (providers). And How Do We Change This? Monday Morning Update 7/2/18. Get Involved. Join my Rolodex to provide occasional news reaction or ideas.

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Redox

MAY 30, 2023

Event recap [Webinar] How to achieve the golden patient record with new patient identify tools from Redox and Verato As the influx of data flowing through healthcare systems continues to increase, so does the complexity of patient identity records. Learn more about Redox Chroma, and get in touch with Redox for questions or to get started!

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 18, 2018

The VA signs a 10-year, $10 billion contract with Cerner for its new EHR. A former MD Anderson research assistant – now a school nurse – is found by the federal government to have submitted her own falsely labeled blood samples for those of 98 research study participants, requiring the resulting studies to be retracted. Get Involved.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

And, as Ascension has stated, they informed acute care administrative and clinical leaders across their organization on the work, held enterprise-wide webinars, and briefed clinical leaders of their employed physician group in detail. In addition, Ascension directly engaged many front-line nurses and clinicians on the project."

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HIStalk Weekender

AUGUST 10, 2018

However once you hit “whole organization” level systems, as you do with an organization-wide EMR/EHR, putting a bit of distance between you and the primary vendor becomes important. Theresa Brown, RN, PhD notes that doctors generally ignore those feelings as documented in the EHR’s nurse notes. Brian Too ).

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HIStalk Weekender

MARCH 1, 2019

More than half of surveyed home care clinicians say they can’t access the hospital EHR records of their patients to reconcile patient medications. He was cleared for discharge months ago after 10 months in the NICU and five in the PICU, but the family couldn’t find homecare nurses who could care for his ventilator. AtlantaPatient ).

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HIStalk Weekender

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

VA Secretary Robert Wilkie tells the Senate VA Committee that he and representatives at the DoD are working to create a “single point of authority” for their respective EHR projects with Cerner. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not). Deliver an educational webinar (providers).

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HIStalk Weekender

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The VA tells a House EHR subcommittee that it will need to spend an extra $350 million on top of its $16 billion Cerner budget to hire “subject matter experts to grade the implementation efforts of Cerner”. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not). Weekly News Recap. Get Involved.

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HIStalk Weekender

JULY 13, 2018

A new KLAS report covering non-US EHR activity finds that Epic doubled its relatively small market share in 2017, InterSystems continued its rapid growth, and Cerner experienced moderate activity. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not). Deliver an educational webinar (providers).

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

After a successful launch, MHF identified the opportunity to integrate telestroke into the Epic EHR via Context-Aware Linking (CAL), which streamlined the workflow and enabled providers to practice telemedicine from within their standard EHR workflow. M Health Fairview (MHF) went live with a telestrokepilot program in 2018.

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HIStalk Weekender

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In fact, many state laws prohibit PDMP data from being exported outside the system to EHRs (it can only be seen in view-only mode on their web browser interface), making use in clinical decision support problematic. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not). from their PDMPs.

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 31, 2019

I did consulting about a decade ago for a teaching hospital that was being built to advise on how to make sure the layout promoted it being “EHR ready.” Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not). Deliver an educational webinar (providers). Bob Smith ). Get Involved.

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HIStalk Weekender

MARCH 15, 2019

It will be fascinating to monitor Cerner’s encounter-based EHR’s acceptance as well as how they will decide to address functional nuances in the VA (and DoD). Cerner’s EHR is designed for a “clinically driven revenue cycle” – a help or hindrance to the VA and DoD? Deliver an educational webinar (providers). Art_Vandelay ).

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HIStalk Weekender

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Cerner announces the partner companies that will serve on its VA EHR modernization team. Nobel Prize winner Leon Lederman, who created the physics concept of a “God particle” later discovered as the Higgs boson, dies at 96 after being forced to sell his Nobel statue at auction in 2015 to pay for medical bills and nursing home care.

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HIStalk Weekender

APRIL 19, 2019

And right now, the EHR is such a PIA that for the foreseeable future, garbage-in is winning. The charges involve his previous job in Tennessee, where he supervised (or didn’t, according to the DEA) a nurse practitioner who called himself “Rock Doc” in hoping to land a reality TV gig. Deliver an educational webinar (providers).

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HIStalk Weekender

JULY 20, 2018

Draft CMS rule changes would make major changes to physician billing, the Quality Payments Program, EHR design in supporting simpler billing requirements, and telehealth coverage. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not). Deliver an educational webinar (providers).

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

These courses can be done via webinar, providing some schedule flexibility to the participants. For interoperability, leaders need to look for avenues to foster more data sharing and care collaboration between physicians – beyond EHRs. Additionally, certifications can be achieved by adding to the Health IT leaders’ credentials.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Advocate Health Care, one of Chicagoland’s largest employers, has more than 35,000 associates, including 11,000 nurses and nearly 6,300 affiliated physicians. The health system provides employees opportunities to take part in global mission trips, and its wellness program offers incentives for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 17, 2019

A large survey of clinicians finds that the #1 predictor of positive EHR experience is training, with EHR personalization also being a major contributor. The EHR is just not that platform. EHR vendors built their systems to suit their health system masters and use their size anti-competitively, just like health systems do.

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HIStalk Weekender

JUNE 8, 2018

A Stanford Medicine poll finds that more than half of doctors are dissatisfied with EHRs and desire short-term changes that include user interface redesign. Illinois rejects Cerner’s challenge of the EHR selection of Epic by its customer, University of Illinois Hospitals. Deliver an educational webinar (providers). Get Involved.

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HIStalk Weekender

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Xealth develops software that enables providers to send patients digital recommendations for over-the-counter healthcare products, apps, and services from within their EHR and patient portal. CMS and ONC seek feedback on draft recommendations for reducing regulatory and administrative burdens caused by health IT and EHRs. Get Involved.

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HIStalk Weekender

APRIL 12, 2019

Urgent care EHR/PM vendor DocuTAP and urgent care solutions vendor Practice Velocity announce plans to merge. The EHR minefield is littered with craters of vendors who tried to create a synergy between technologies that were created under separate paradigms and methodologies. Deliver an educational webinar (providers).

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 10, 2019

The Practice Fusion unit of Allscripts is served a criminal grand jury subpoena related to EHR certification and anti-kickback statute issues. Astria Health blames its EHR conversion and contracted RCM vendor for its Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not).

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HIStalk Weekender

AUGUST 3, 2018

billion more for its EHR implementation by mentioning the unstated cost of adding the Coast Guard while redacting the list of “as a service” requirements and their associated costs. Because the earliest EHRs were based on existing clinician workflows, the EHRs merely copied the paper workflow routines. Best Reader Comments.

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HIStalk Weekender

DECEMBER 7, 2018

A KLAS report finds that most EHR vendors are progressing well toward supporting a national patient record network now that CommonWell is connected to Carequality. In Australia, Queensland Health’s hospital EHR project will run $188 million over budget if implemented in the remaining hospitals. Best Reader Comments. Get Involved.

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