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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Basch offers recommendations to 'reconceptualize' MU

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should “completely reconceptualize” the Meaningful Use program, say Peter Basch, MD, FACP, medical director for ambulatory EHR and health IT policy for MedStar Health, and Thomson Kuhn, senior systems architect at the American College of Physicians, writing on the Health Affairs blog.

Cleveland provider earns HIMSS Davies Award

The MetroHealth System of Cleveland, Ohio has been named a 2015 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recipient.  

CHIME responds to MU announcement

CHIME President and CEO Russell Branzell has issued a response to the news from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt that the Meaningful Use (MU) program will come to an end this year.

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Slavitt: CMS moving away from MU

With technology in virtually every place that care is provided, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is in the process of ending Meaningful Use and moving to "a new regime culminating with [the Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA)]," said Andy Slavitt, CMS acting director, speaking at the 34th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco.

AMA launches Silicon Valley company to grow innovation footprint

The American Medical Association (AMA) has announced a $15 million investment to become founding partner of a healthcare innovation company, called Health2047, that will conduct rapid exploration of innovative solutions to the biggest challenges facing the nation’s 1.1 million physicians and the patients they serve.

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Nearly 1 in 3 patients say email communication with providers improved their health

According to a new survey published in the American Journal of Managed Care, nearly one-third of patients who sent electronic messages said it improved their health, and more than one-third said it led to less office phone calls and in-person visits.

Survey finds lack of patient access to online records

Despite the increase in EHR adoption, more than half of patients cannot access their full health records electronically, according to a HealthMine survey.

Stage 3 comments: ACP says 'recast MU under MIPS'

Meaningful Use is a significant component of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) but both will fail without substantial changes, according to the American College of Physicians in its comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services about the MU Stage 3 final rule.

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