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. 

OIG audit finds La. over- and underpaid MU incentives

The Office of Inspector General has found that the Louisiana Department of Health and Human Services overpaid hospitals $3.1 million in Meaningful Use payments.

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Fourth team enters bid for DoD EHR modernization contract

Another joint venture has thrown its hat into the ring in the bid for the Department of Defense's $11 million EHR modernization contract.

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Functionality Failure: More EHR Users Ready to Replace

Surveys indicate widespread dissatisfaction plus there are EHR failure stories in the news all the time.

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The Challenges Keep Changing: Meaningful Use Roundtable

As the federal government looks toward more detailed and stringent requirements for Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use program, most healthcare organizations still struggle to meet the objectives of Stage 2.

Survey touts EHR benefits in communications, patient safety

The answers to two key questions pertaining to patient safety often weigh less on the minds of practicing physicians who utilize EHRs, wrote two physician experts on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s Health IT Buzz blog.

Most providers have no strategy for accountable care

Despite an increased effort to tie provider reimbursement to quality metrics and overall cost of care reduction, fewer than 25 percent of providers have a defined strategy around accountable care, according to an Essentials Brief from HIMSS Analytics.

Isabel Healthcare to Exhibit at ENGAGE14, Greenway Health’s Annual Users Conference

Ann Arbor, MI September 04, 2014 -- Isabel Healthcare will exhibit at the Greenway Users Conference- Engage 2014, Booth 414, on September 4-7, 2014 in Dallas, Texas.

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Is time on our side?

Less than one week ago, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a final rule that that provides flexibility in how healthcare providers can use certified EHR technology for the 2014 EHR Incentive Program reporting period.

Around the web

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.