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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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Unifying the Healthcare Assembly Line

Mobile Health Matters

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. in Nursing from Baptist College of Health Sciences and his M.S. The Aftermath of the EMR Gold Rush. Scott received his B.S. Francis.

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Theresa Meadows, SVP & CIO, Cook Children’s Health Care System, Chapter 1

Health System CIO

Meadows also discusses the tricky transition from nursing to IT, how her nursing background has helped shape her leadership strategy, and the mistake CIOs can’t afford to make. LISTEN NOW USING THE PLAYER BELOW OR CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR iTUNES PODCAST FEED. About Cook Children’s. Upgrading to Meditech 6.1.

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Finding the future of interoperability with Redox: Part 3 – How Carequality can solve disconnected data for digital health

Redox

Although their software is sold to healthcare organizations and used by people who treat patients (e.g. physicians or nurses), most software companies do not have any clinicians on staff or provide any care in-house.

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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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Stephen Clark, CIO, Albemarle Health, Chapter 2

Health System CIO

At-the-elbow support” from nursing Struggling with quality measures Stage 2 — “It’s a matter of maturing what we have.” CPOE roadblocks — “The technology gets in the way.”. * “At-the-elbow support” from nursing. LISTEN NOW USING THE PLAYER BELOW OR CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR iTUNES PODCAST FEED. Telepsychiatry HIE.

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Healthcare Innovation Funding – Regulations and Disrupting Traditional Models

Healthcare IT Today

government introduced the meaningful use program as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, LTPAC organizations – notably nursing homes – and the vulnerable patients they serve have been left behind. Since the U.S.