EMR/EHR

Electronic medical records (EMR) are a digital version of a patient’s chart that store their personal information, medical history and links to prior exams, texts and reports. The goal of these systems is to enable immediate access to the patient's data electronically, rather than needing to request paper file folders that might be stored in fragment files at numerous locations where a patient is seen or treated. EMRs (also called electronic health records, or EHR) improve clinician and health system efficiency by making all this data immediately available. This helps reduce repeat tests, repeat prescriptions and repeat imaging exams because reports, imaging or other patient data is not not immediately available. 

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House Committee calls for halt to EHR incentives, Mostashari responds

CHICAGO--The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Wally Herger (R-CA), and Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) have called on U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to immediately suspend the distribution of incentive payments related to the EHR program.

ONC launches Blue Button video challenge

AHIMA calls for better EHR standards

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is calling for improved and unified Health Information Governance "to standardize EHR use to ensure the technology fulfills its promise of guiding better, more efficient patient care."

Government Programs Help Overcome Rural EHR Barriers

Indiana’s state health information exchange (HIE) program has a goal of driving interoperability by connecting disparate systems into a more cohesive network.

Yuma welcomes new CMIO

Yuma Regional Medical Center welcomes Robert D. Budman, MD, MBA, as CMIO. In this role, he will provide physician leadership in the optimization of YRMCCare, Yuma Regional’s EHR.

EHRs lead to increased testing, positive outcomes in patients with diabetes, high cholesterol

EHR implementation at Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) facilities led to improved drug treatment intensification, monitoring and physiologic control among patients with diabetes and high cholesterol, according to research published Oct. 1 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

IOM: EHR product reviews could prevent FDA regulation

The health IT community should allow reviews and comparisons of EHR products if it wants to avoid formal regulation by the FDA, according to a new discussion paper from the Institute of Medicine, Comparative User Experiences of Health IT Products: How User Experiences Would Be Reported and Used.​

Open architectures for EHRs could spur innovation

EHRs would benefit if developers had the ability to create applications for them. Several organizations are working to build the open architecture to allow it, according to the panelists of a Sept. 15 presentation at the 2012 Medicine 2.0 conference.

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