What You Should Know:
- Allscripts and Microsoft sign a five-year partnership extension to support Allscripts’ cloud-based Sunrise electronic health record and drive co-innovation.
- The alliance will enable Allscripts to harness the power of Microsoft’s platform and tools, including Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams, and Power BI, creating a more seamless and highly productive user experience.
Today Allscripts and
Microsoft Corp. announced the
extension of their long-standing
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Health Catalyst Acquires Clinical Workflow Optimization Solution healthfinch
What You Should Know:
- Health Catalyst announces an agreement to acquire
clinical workflow optimization solution healthfinch using a mix of stock and
cash.
- As part of the acquisition, healthfinch will be a new
application suite category called EMR Embedded Insights and its refills, care
gaps closure, and visit planning applications will continue to be available in
their original configuration.
Health
Catalyst, Inc., a provider of data and analytics technology and services
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Pilot: Clinical Digital Assistant Reduces EHR Documentation Time and Burden for Family Physicians
What You Should Know:
- AAFP Innovation Lab pilot program with Suki, an AI-powered, voice-enabled digital assistant for doctors, significantly reduced EHR documentation time and burden for family physicians.
- The pilot studied the impact of a digital assistant
used for visit note completion for over 15 to 30 days by 10 family physicians.
- The time and motion results showed a 62% decrease in documentation time per patient, a 51% decrease in documentation time during clinic, and a
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New AI Accurately Translates 93% of Prescription Information Imported into EHRs
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare technology company DrFirst has announced the
release of its next generation, patented SmartSig AI technology to improve the
quality of patient medication history when it is imported into hospitals’ and
health systems’ electronic health records (EHRs).
- Simple prescription instructions, called “sigs,” can
have hundreds of variations or be missing entirely from patients’ medication
histories when they are imported into hospitals’ EHRs. The missing
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Vonage, Redox Integrate Telehealth Data with EHRs to Support Interoperability
What You Should
Know:
- Vonage and
Redox form partnership where Vonage API users can now leverage Redox APIs to
exchange telehealth data with electronic health records (EHRs).
- Together the
companies enable healthcare providers to connect effectively and privately with
patients via a platform that is fully interoperable with EHRs and other leading
healthcare data source systems.
Vonage, a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital
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Give Your EHR a Makeover—Not a Do-Over
David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems
EHRs have long been blamed for fueling clinician frustration and burnout. According to a recent study published in the Journal of Informatics in Health and Biomedicine, 70 percent of clinicians reported experiencing stress related to the use of health information technology. In an effort to address those issues, healthcare organizations have spent countless hours and revenue to rip out inefficient clinical systems and replace them with new
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Epic MyChart Helps Deliver COVID-19 Drive-Thru Tests at 1,000+ CVS Pharmacies
Source: CVS Health
As states cautiously re-open, convenient access to COVID-19 testing
is critical so that those who are infected can self-isolate quickly to minimize
its spread. EHR leader Epic is helping
deliver COVID-19 test results via MyChart as part of an effort to increase
nationwide testing capacity being led by CVS
Health.
Epic's software allows patients to access test results online in a timely and efficient manner. Patients registering for an appointment at the 1,000+ COVID-19
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How Direct Digital Fax Can Improve System Usability for EHRs
Paul Banco, CEO of etherFAX
The lack of EHR usability is a huge concern for the healthcare industry. According to a study conducted by Mayo Clinic researchers, modern electronic health records (EHR) are less user-friendly than Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Excel, and Google. Using the System Usability Scale (SUS), Electronic Health Records were marked with an unsettling “F” and a SUS score of 45 while Excel received a SUS score of 57 and Microsoft Word received a SUS score of 76. Google
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Net Health Acquires Wound Care Platform Tissue Analytics
What You Should Know:
- Net Health acquires wound care platform Tissue Analytics to expand Net Health’s leadership position in the wound care market.
- Tissue Analytics, Inc. deploys its wound management software via industry-leading SMART on FHIR integrations with Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, and others.
- Net Health plans to integrate Tissue Analytics app will be integrated with their WoundExpert EHR solution to add key capabilities for use within hospital outpatient
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Fear of Changing EHRs? Here’s What You Should be Concerned About
Khalid Al-Maskari, CEO at Health Information Management Systems (HiMS)
Over the years, the EHR has developed a poor reputation as a time-waster, a source of frustration for staff and a significant contributor of burnout in the healthcare industry. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 59% of physicians said their EHR negatively impacted their time at work. This is because EHRs can be inflexible, hard to use and lack interoperability with other
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