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To Drive Value, EHRs Need to Actually be Usable

Healthcare IT Today

It can serve every user from the patient to the receptionist to nurses, doctors, counselors, billers, and the CFO. For many clinicians, EHRs have actually been a disservice, a major factor in burnout. That’s because they weren’t invented to help clinicians in the first place. It still holds true.

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HIStalk Interviews Luis Castillo, CEO, Ensocare

HIStalk Interviews

The big EMR push, Meaningful Use, and even ICD-10 took people’s attention away from the post-acute care side. The nurse wants to follow up, but they’re going to call you, ask you to enter information into a mobile device on an app. I recently was at a hospital that had a warehouse full of 75 nurse navigators.

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Unifying the Healthcare Assembly Line

Mobile Health Matters

The Aftermath of the EMR Gold Rush. The launch of Meaningful Use under the Affordable Care Act drove the electronic medical record (EMR) “Gold Rush,” the mass implementation of EMRs in a shift away from paper charts. Keep in mind that many ACOs and IDNs have numerous EMRs throughout their systems.

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What Duplicate Patient Notes Reveal About Health Care and Its Records

Healthcare IT Today

That question would call for yet another study, which would interview the nurses and doctors themselves. In short, each time the clinician deals with the patient—which could easily be several times a day for in-patient nursing staff—the clinician must make sure to include everything about that patient in the note. Follow the money.

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