Purely educating doctors about the importance of prescribing certain therapies may not be enough to make a meaningful impact, according to a new Penn Medicine study published in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. Using acid suppression therapy--an effective method of reducing the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding in vulnerable cardiac patients--Penn researchers tested interventions that utilized both education and an EMR dashboard to provide doctors with up-to-date
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KLAS Report: Nurse EHR Satisfaction Significantly Higher Than Physicians
On average, nurses report significantly higher EHR satisfaction than physicians, according to the latest KLAS report. Today, nurses outnumber physicians in the United States four to one. The report, The Nurse EHR Experience: An Arch Collaborative Impact Report 2019 measures the nurse EHR experience and identifies opportunities for improvement in the nurse experience and what the nurse experience can teach other groups of clinicians about how to succeed with the EHR.Nurses EHR Experience
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EHR Fax Server Error Exposes Thousands of Physician Notes, Medical Records
Thousands of physicians’ notes and medical records were left exposed by a fax server error within Meditab, an all-in-one multi-specialty EHR, Practice Management and Billing software solution, TechCrunch first reports. Dubai-based cybersecurity firm SpiderSilk discovered the unsecured exposed fax server was running an Elasticsearch database with over 6 million records since its creation in March 2018. It is unknown if anyone else discovered the exposed fax server or how long the data was
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AMIA Presents ‘Socio-Technical Interoperability Stack’ to Outline Why HIT Interoperability Is Not Occurring
AMIA presents "Socio-TechnicalInteroperability Stack" – developed to help communicate categorical reasons why health interoperability is not occurring.
In comments submitted last week to the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program (NITRD), the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) supported their future vision for interoperability among medical devices, electronic health records, and other systems within the
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Partners HealthCare Integrates MassPAT with Epic EHR to Curb Opioid Abuse
Partners HealthCare today has fully integrated the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Prescription Awareness Tool (MassPAT) directly into it's Epic electronic health record (EHR) system. The integration marks Partners as the first healthcare network to have the tool immediately available to clinicians at the point-of-care and demonstrating a significant step forward in the Commonwealth’s efforts to align health care providers across Massachusetts on a common platform to monitor opioid
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DrChrono Integrates 3D Anatomical Modeling in Mobile EHR for Physician Practices
3D4Medical integration into DrChrono's Mobile EHR allows physician practices to show 3D Anatomical Modeling on iPad and use Apple Pencil for drawing and cross-sections. Mobile EHR platform for physician practices DrChrono Inc., today announced a new integration partnership with 3D4Medical, a provider of 3D medical technology applications and platform. The integration will allow practices across the United States to access 3D interactive modeling and animation videos from within their EHR to
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Why AI-Enabled EHRs & Telemedicine is Transforming Behavioral Health
Behavioral healthcare is on the precipice of an exciting new frontier. While the sector has been slow to adopt major tech innovations, emerging tools are ushering in unique advantages that allow providers to maximize profit, advance their sector and improve care for patients more than ever before.As a CEO working within the tech and revenue cycle management industries, I listen to the concerns of both insurance companies and healthcare providers to identify trends in behavioral healthcare every
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PointClickCare Acquires Senior Living EHR & eMAR Vendor QuickMAR
PointClickCare Technologies, a cloud-based EHR for long-term post-acute care (LTPAC) and senior living industries has acquired QuickMAR, an eMAR & EHR for long-term care, group homes and assisted living facilities. The combination of two leading organizations will offer senior living customers and pharmacy partners greater flexibility in how they adopt and scale their resident care strategies while working through a single technology vendor.Founded in 2007, QuickMAR is an EHR and eMAR
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Sturdy Memorial Signs 7-Year Agreement to Implement Cerner EHR
Sturdy Memorial Hospital (SMH), a full-service independent community hospital has signed a 7-year agreement to implement Cerner’s EHR platform at its 132-bed hospital in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Through this agreement, SMH will use Cerner CommunityWorks, a cloud-based deployment model, tailored to help community health care organizations securely manage patient health history, including clinical and financial data. The software deployed through this model is designed to support transparency
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Medsphere Acquires ED EHR Provider Wellsoft
Medsphere Systems Corporation, a provider of affordable and interoperable healthcare information technology (IT) solutions and services, today announced the acquisition of Wellsoft Corporation, a Somerset, NJ-based Emergency Department (ED) EHR provider. Wellsoft offers complete information management software for the challenging environment of the Emergency Department to improve operational efficiencies, productivity, care coordination, and revenue in Emergency Departments throughout the
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