Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Nurses huddled together look at electronic health records on a tablet.
By Andrea Fox 03:19 pm October 31, 2023
Marquette is the first nursing school in the country to incorporate the use of Epic's educational health records software into its curriculum.
Physician using multiple EHRs and IT systems
By Nathan Eddy 10:00 am October 31, 2023
"Imagine if the tools on your computer that you need to do your job were so cumbersome, they caused you to be fatigued, burnout, and to have to work extra hours to get your job done. How would this impact the quality of your work?"
A male doctor sits with another man and they are looking at SDOH data on a mobile device.
By Andrea Fox 05:26 pm October 27, 2023
By integrating a patient portal screening tool into the clinical workflow, Tufts University researchers aim to advance the use of HIT to identify food-insecure and nutrition-insecure patients and pave the way to interventions like nutrition prescriptions.
By Bill Siwicki 02:19 pm October 25, 2023
Critical patient insights were missing in more than 13% of Denver Health electronic health records. A new methodology has helped reduce this to less than 1%.
A digital-first virtual health consult
By Mike Miliard 11:18 am October 23, 2023
The Defense Health Agency has earmarked as much as $180 million for the project, which seeks to build a next-generation hybrid care platform for the U.S. Military Health System
Helen Waters of Meditech on AI
By Bill Siwicki 10:24 am October 23, 2023
Helen Waters, chief operating officer at the EHR giant, describes the company's artificial intelligence strategy and shows how provider organizations can benefit today from NLP, LLMs, generative AI and more.
KLAS booth sign at HIMSS Global Conference
By Andrea Fox 11:42 am October 20, 2023
While lack of efficiency in using electronic health records is most correlated with clinician burnout, healthcare organizations want vendors to help them improve EHR experiences, according to the KLAS Arch Collaborative.
Doctor reading a medical chart from a digital tablet
By Adam Ang 12:07 am October 20, 2023
Also, Queensland University is replacing legacy IT systems across its network of clinics.
Dr. Valerie McKinnis of Mountain Region CommonSpirit Health on RTLS
By Bill Siwicki 10:08 am October 19, 2023
Yes, RTLS. Mountain Region CommonSpirit Health's CMIO offers a deep dive into some novel uses of the tracking technology, showing how it can fulfill its long-touted promise of improving care quality, patient and provider experience and the bottom line.
A patient sits on an exam table and listens to the doctor in the foreground talking
By Andrea Fox 10:06 am October 11, 2023
The mobile app could help save healthcare providers up to two hours of documentation time per day, at 90% accuracy, the company says.