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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EHRs don’t have to be so complicated

Difficulties and problems related to the implementation of EHRs have been circulating ever since the technology was developed. Physicians struggle to understand the technology, it can take up the time it was supposed to save, and the quality of care can be questioned as physicians try to focus on both the EHR and the patients.

Quest Diagnostics develops app for cognitive testing

Testing for cognitive dysfunction has yet to enter the digital age, still clinging to the age of paper. Quest Diagnostics is pushing cognitive testing into a new age with the development of CogniSense, a digital cognitive assessment app that can produce results more efficiently and in a quicker manner when conventional testing.

Q&A: EHR system helps providers diagnose rare diseases

Practice Fusion, a provider of cloud-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) platforms, has developed a new program that is capable of assisting physicians in diagnosing rare diseases.  

Diverse Health Organizations to Pioneer Strategies to Improve Patients’ Access to their Health Data

WASHINGTON, D.C. ─ July 5, 2016 ─ The GetMyHealthData initiative today announced commitments from leading health organizations to take concrete steps over the next year to make it easier for patients and families to access and use their electronic health information. 

MU, MIPS reporting periods would shorten to 90 days under Senate bill

A group of Republican senators, led by South Dakota’s John Thune, have introduced legislation to reduce reporting periods within the EHR Incentive Programs and the new Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) to 90 days.

Users will soon be able to view health records on iPhones with Apple’s improved Health app

Apple device users will now have a better way to log and document their health with improvements made in iOS 10, the operating system for the tech giant's mobile devices.

Making EHR's easier shouldn't be so hard

The good and the bad of electronic health records have been dominating healthcare for what seems like ages. This technology has the potential to improve wait times, make data secure and make work easier for physicians, yet it seems to be doing the exact opposite.

Where did the money go? GAO report finds VA at high risk after billions invested in IT

A recent GAO report on VA healthcare found the IT systems to be severally outdated despite the organization spending billions on IT. If they spent billions on IT “improvements," why is the IT system still outdated?  

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