Search Tag: electronic health record

ICU Management

Study-do-ehrs-affect-workflow-in-the-er

2015 28 Sep

The transition from a homegrown electronic health record to a commercially available EHR system affected emergency physician work activities, resulting in more tasks performed per minute (or an increase of nearly 12 percent), according to a new study in Annals of Emergency Medicine . Researchers say frequent task switching after the new EHR was implemented...Read more

IT Management

Ehr-clinic-notes-need-redesign

2015 07 Sep

Electronic health record documentation tools, including the clinic note that recaps a patient's medical history, should be redesigned to better meet the needs of physicians, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine . Researchers from the University of Missouri noted that EHR documentation "mimicked"...Read more

Executive Health Management

Auva-selects-cerner-s-electronic-health-record

2015 16 Jul

The AllgemeineUnfallversicherungsanstalt (General Accident Insurance Institution, AUVA) agreed to implement Cerner Millennium® electronic health record in seven emergency hospitals and four rehabilitation centers. The new agreement will significantly expand Cerner’s market share in Austria. "It has always been one of our main priorities to provide...Read more

IT Management

Do-ehrs-impact-ischaemic-stroke-patient-outcomes

2015 09 May

Electronic health records (EHRs) may be important to have a more high-tech and transparent healthcare system, but new research reveals that using EHRs was not associated with better quality of care or clinical outcomes for ischaemic stroke patients. The study, reported in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology , analysed data of 626,473...Read more

IMAGING Management

Can-ehr-decision-support-reduce-child-radiation-exposure

2015 09 May

Risks associated with ionising radiation exposure are greater in children due to their longer life span and greater radiosensitivity. The good news is that according to researchers the risk can be significantly reduced with just a little bit of education. The finding is from a new study, “Point-of-care estimated radiation exposure and imaging guidelines...Read more

IT Management

Ehr-implementation-role-of-super-users

2015 23 Apr

Electronic health records (EHRs) are designed to improve patient safety and quality of care, but the intended benefits of EHRs are not always realised because of implementation-related challenges. Enlisting clinician super users to provide frontline support to employees has been recommended to foster EHR implementation success. However, their enlistment...Read more

IT Management

Poor-ehr-data-integrity-threatens-patient-safety

2015 14 Apr

The second annual report by the ECRI Institute identifies EHR data integrity near the top of its list of patient safety hazards in hospitals. Although many hospitals have invested heavily in systems designed to detect mundane errors in electronic medical records, incorrect or missing data continue to jeopardise safe care delivery. The report advises...Read more

IT Management

Best-practice-alerts-in-emr-provide-near-time-education-to-physicians

2015 19 Jan

Researchers in New Hampshire have discovered that the implementation of an alert function in the electronic medical record (EMR) can inform physicians about the most up-to-date best practice guidelines. The EMR’s “best practice alert” allowed pathologists to remind physicians about the latest evidence at the moment of each transfusion order, which...Read more

IMAGING Management

Agfa-healthcare-park-place-international-optimise-meditech-ehrs

2014 21 Nov

Agfa HealthCare has announced a collaboration with Park Place International (PPI) to integrate and resell the Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging Portfolio to optimise the MEDITECH electronic health record (EHR). This solution provides multi-media electronic content management for MEDITECH EHRs and enhances value based performance goals. The changing...Read more

Health Management

The-universal-image-viewer

2014 08 Nov

Key Points • A universal image viewer enables viewing of images across departments and enterprises, thus enhancing patient care. • A universal viewer may replace or coexist with a PACS viewer, and may be integrated with a vendor-neutral archive or electronic health record system. • Universal viewers offer a number of advanced functionalities,...Read more

Health Management

Semantic-technology-enables-smart-computers

2014 08 Nov

As healthcare faces up to the promises and challenges of big data, HealthManagement spoke to Dr. Dirk Colaert, Chief Medical Officer at Agfa Healthcare, on the evolution of healthcare against the background of big data. Big data is an abstract term, but in healthcare the data represent very personal information. Do you see this as a paradox?...Read more

Health Management

When-the-his-lights-go-out

2014 08 Nov

Key Points • Article discusses the contingency measures envisioned in KBC Zagreb in case of total or partial HIS outage • Important issues highlighted in case all technical risk mitigation measures failed • Scenarios described: total HIS outage or subsystem failures/disconnections for short and longer period of time • Procedures for off-HIS...Read more

IT Management

Ama-announces-framework-for-ehr-usability

2014 19 Sep

CHICAGO - Building on its landmark  study  with RAND Corp. confirming that discontent with electronic health records (EHRs) is taking a significant toll on physicians, the American Medical Association (AMA) today called for solutions to EHR systems that have neglected usability as a necessary feature. Responding to the urgent physician need for better...Read more

IT Management

Nih-s-role-in-biomedical-big-data

2014 11 Aug

Across many areas of science, technological and conceptual advances are resulting in the increasingly rapid generation of large amounts of data (called 'big data') in many formats and at all levels. At the same time, there is a broader cultural shift underway from approaches that kept data mostly private with sharing of resultant knowledge in the form...Read more