In an effort to promote transparency around how EHRs are designed and user-tested, and drive improvements in clinician support and patient safety, the American Medical Association (AMA) and MedStar Health’s National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare have developed a comparative EHR User-Centered Design Evaluation Framework that shows a lack of focus among regulators and industry on user-centered design and usability testing.
EHR User-Centered Design Evaluation Framework Overview
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Baptist Health Care to Implement Allscripts Sunrise EHR
Pensacola, Florida-based Baptist Health Care Corporation has selected Allscripts Sunrise EHR solution to improve the quality and safety of patient care and better manage their business operations over Cerner and Epic. The Allscripts solution will provide Baptist with a single, comprehensive health care record for every patient that is accessible by clinicians at any point of care, including hospitals, ambulatory sites, physician practices and other trading partners. Non-clinical departments will
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Former Epic Employees Raises $3.5M for EHR Integration API
Founded by former Epic engineers, Redox, a health IT startup helping developers integrate with EHRs and health systems manage their connections to the cloud, today announced it has raised $3.5M in Series A funding led by .406 Ventures with participation by Flybridge Capital Partners and HealthX Ventures. The company hopes to solve the EHR interoperability problem with their RESTful API designed to help apps share data with almost any EHR vendor at any health system.
Redox's
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KLAS: athenahealth, Epic Leads Industry in Interoperability
athenahealth and Epic leads the industry in overall interoperability, while eClinicalWorks, McKesson, GE, and NextGen are described as "interoperability laggards," according to recent findings in KLAS' inaugural interoperability report. The report, “Interoperability 2015: Are We Lifting Together?” highlights how provider organizations rate their EMR vendors in terms of how proactive and effective they are in sharing patient data outside their organization.
For the report, KLAS interviewed more
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KLAS: Top EHR Executives Agree to Publish Interoperability Metrics
To help resolve some of the key interoperability challenges in the health IT industry, several key EHR and provider stakeholders are collaborating to finally make interoperability a viable measurement tool. Convened during the KLAS Keystone Summit in Midway, Utah, Micky Tripathi, President and CEO of Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, led and moderated the summit with EHR stakeholders on how KLAS will publish objective measures of interoperability and ongoing reporting.
Executives who
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Why I Despise my EHR, But I’m Still Using It
Modern electronic health records (EHRs) have become the norm in U.S. health care — nearly 80 percent of office-based physicians use them, up from 40 percent in 2009, according to federal data. But while adoption is up, satisfaction has plummeted. In 2010, about 61 percent of physicians liked their EHRs (were satisfied or very satisfied, according to periodic AMA surveys). This dropped to 48 percent in 2012, and in 2014 satisfaction rates were only 34%. Physicians have come to
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eClinicalWorks Offers Hospitals Free Interopreability with Allscripts, Cerner, Epic, Meditech & McKesson
eClinicalWorks®, a leading ambulatory EHR provider has announced free hospital interoperability of Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) data using a query-based exchange with Cerner, Epic, McKesson, Meditech and Siemens, and is extending this integration to all hospital systems in the industry. Available now to customers, this seamless data transfer between systems facilitates coordination of care between inpatient and ambulatory settings to enable complete, accurate and relevant information at
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eClinicalWorks Unveils Next-Gen Ambulatory EHR with Focus on Interoperability
eClinicalWorks®, a leading ambulatory EHR provider, today unveiled their next generation EHR solution, eClinicalWorks 10e, a new cloud services platform. During his keynote speech this morning at eClinicalWorks National Conference in Nashville, CEO Girish Navani stressed the importance of a building a more cloud-centric, hardware agnostic and intuitive UI to reflect the next generation of healthcare delivery.
“10e is a game changer for this industry,” said Girish Navani, CEO and
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Georgia Connects With Alabama to Support Health Information Exchange
Georgia Health Information Network (GaHIN), Georgia's statewide health information exchange (HIE), and Alabama's One Health Record® today announced the success of an electronic connection between the two networks. This is the second state-to-state health information exchange (HIE) connection for GaHIN, which connected with the South Carolina HIE in 2014, and is one of only a few interstate connections in the nation.
"Healthcare doesn't stop at the state line, so we need to ensure that
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Physician Practice Guide to Accurate EHR Software Pricing
The expected benefits of any EHR systems are to improve patient care, lower administrative costs and improve billings and collections. The primary measures of effectiveness are:
- The claims collection rate;
- The number of patient visits per day;
- The amount of time spent managing faxes and paper charts and
- The direct costs of paper charts (cost of materials, storage, destruction etc.).
EHR system costs will vary widely and depend primarily on the size of the physician
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