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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Arkansas overpays MU incentives by $1.2M

An Office of the Inspector General (OIG) audit found that the Arkansas Department of Human Services overpaid a total of 14 hospitals EHR incentive payments $1.2 million.  

Brookings fellow offers proposal to save MU

A blog post from a fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for Technology Innovation suggests we learn from the past to save the Meaningful Use program. 

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WSJ offers advice to patients on their health information

It's time for consumers to take charge of their health and their health information, according to an article in The Wall Street Journal that offers advice for patients on how to get their information and what to do with it. 

Rules change to allow first-time hospitals to attest to MU this summer

Hospitals just beginning the Meaningful Use (MU) attestation process in 2015 can attest anytime between now and August 14. Previously, hospitals participating for the first time were required to wait until Jan. 1, 2016, to attest due to system changes.

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Change is happening

It would be understandable if the casual observer believed the state of EHRs to be in dire straits.

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KLAS usability report puts athenahealth on top

The 2015 KLAS Usability Report examines EMR modules including physician documentation, e-Prescribing, medication reconciliation, problem lists and clinical decision support and offers details on the usability levels of nine different ambulatory EMRs with athenahealth coming out on top.

EHR vendors commit to optometry data registry

In an effort to improve primary eye care in the United States, six EHR vendors have committed to providing anonymous patient diagnosis, disease and outcome information to an American Optometric Association (AOA) registry.

Hospital CFO gets 23-month sentence for MU fraud

The former hospital CFO who was found guilty of defrauding the Meaningful Use (MU) program has been sentenced to 23 months in prison. 

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