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Bookmark or Share- Electronic Health Records (EHR) - American Medical AssociationAn electronic health record (EHR) digitizes a patient’s paper chart. It collects the patient’s history of conditions, tests and treatments and can be used to create a more holistic view of the patient’s care. A medical EHR also improves upon paper by making the patient’s information available instantly and securely to an authorized user. But for all these advantages, EHRs can create ...
- 7 EHR usability, safety challenges—and how to overcome themAfter analyzing 557 reports that physicians and other health professionals submitted, researchers identified seven safety and usability challenges physicians should be on the lookout for when they use EHRs in their practice. Data entry. A clinician’s work process may make it hard or impossible to appropriately enter the desired EHR data.
- Big jump seen in EHR secure messaging. Is that a good thing?In all, almost 33,000 users sent more than 9.6 million messages in six months using Epic’s Secure Chat messaging platform, which had been rolled out across all clinical sites in 2019. According to study lead author Sunny Lou, MD, PhD, “one of the main points of the paper” was the discovery that “everyone” is using secure messaging as ...
- Practice innovation strategies: EHR improvementsContents. The utilization of electronic health records can help transform your practice and improve patient outcomes. The AMA STEPS Forward® program offers proven approaches on how to maximize the benefits of electronic health record (EHR) use, strategies and tactics to successfully implement an EHR and best practices in software selection.
- Meaningful Use: Electronic Health Record (EHR) incentive programsMeaningful Use: Overview. CMS developed a program that requires physicians using CEHRT to capture, exchange and report specific clinical data and quality measures. The program, which began in 2011, evolved over the course of 3 stages: Stage 1 established the base requirements for electronic capturing of clinical data.
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